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The first volume of Sermons contains a previously unpublished series by Edwards on Jesus’ parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins from Matthew 25. It presents an important look into Edwards’ developing thought on the nature of sainthood and related topics of theoretical and practical Christianity, particularly in the context of widespread spiritual renewal. Edwards preached these sermons in the...

he was “blameless,” Philip. 3:6; and says, in Acts 26:5, “that after the most straitest sect” of their religion, he “lived a Pharisee.” False Christians may be very exact in their attendance on the ordinances of religion, as the Pharisees were exceeding exact in their observance of the ordinances and institutions of the law of Moses; as particularly, so strict were they in observing the law that instituted tithe, that they paid the tithe of all the herbs that they had in their gardens. They “tithed
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