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Jonathan Edwards’ Resolutions: And Advice to Young Converts is unavailable, but you can change that!

While completing his preparation for the ministry, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) wrote seventy resolutions that guided him throughout his life. About twenty years later, he wrote a letter to young Deborah Hatheway, a new convert in a nearby town, advising her concerning the Christian life. These two writings, often reprinted during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, overflow with...

Edwards prefaces his Resolutions with an exhortation to “remember to read over these resolutions once a week.” Perhaps this bit of advice is also worthy of imitation. The Resolutions are as relevant today as they were when he first penned them so long ago. Reading through them on a regular basis may very well help us also to live with all of our might to the glory and praise of God. After receiving his master’s degree, Edwards served for a few years as a tutor or instructor
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