Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons Quotes

“A people are not made for rulers, but rulers for a people.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“For in truth the reason why men see not the loathsomness of other mens sins, or else have not courage to pass a righteous sentence upon them, It is because they were never convinced to see the plague sore of their own corruptions, never had their hearts affected with the evil of them in their own experience but their own conscience was misled out of authority, and stifled that it durst not outwardly condemn that which inwardly they could not but approve. They therefore who either do not see their own evil, or dare not proceed in open judgment to condemn, they wil either not see or not pass a righteous judgment upon others,”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“Serious.] Meditation is not a flourishing of a mans wit, but hath a set bout at the search of the truth, beats his brain as wee use to say, hammers out a buisiness, as the gouldsmith with his mettal, he heats it and beats it turnes it on this side and then on that, fashions it on both that he might frame it to his mind; meditation is hammering of a truth or poynt propounded, that he may carry and conceive the frame and compass in his mind, not salute a truth as we pass by occasionally but solemnly entertain it into our thoughts; not look upon a thing presented as a spectator or passenger that goes by: but lay other things aside, and look at this as the work and employment for the present to take up our minds.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“As God hath called every man, so let him walke, 1 Cor. 7. 19, 20.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“Licitis perimus omnes,”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“faith is the subsistance of things not seene;”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“No living Christian but he must deny his owne wisedome, judgement, and understanding, that he may be wise in Christ; You say, what, would you have men senselesse, and mopish, and not understand themselves? No, no, here is the point, True grace doth not destroy a mans wisdome, but rather enlargeth and enlightneth it wonderfully; so as that men by nature are blinde, but spirituall wisedome enlightens the eyes of the blinde.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“Glorify thou the word of the Lord, which hath glorified thee. Take heed lest for neglect of either, God remove thy candlestick out of the midst of thee; lest being now as a city upon an hill, which many seek unto, thou be left like a beacon upon the top of a mountain, desolate and forsaken. If we walk unworthy of the Gospel brought unto us, the greater our mercy hath been in the enjoying of it, the greater will our judgment be for the contempt. Be instructed, and take heed.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“His championship of smallpox inoculations for the colonies was an unprecedented public health policy in colonial times.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“Cotton Mather was born Feb. 12, 1663 in Boston, Massachusetts where he would spend all of his life until his death on Feb. 13, 1728. The son of the well-known preacher and academic Increase Mather, Cotton exhibited unusual intellectual gifts. At 12 he entered Harvard, receiving his MA at the age of 18 from the hands of his father, who was president of the college at the time. He preached his first sermon in his father’s church in August 1680 and was formally ordained in 1685 becoming his father’s colleague. While believing in witchcraft, he sided with Samuel Willard on trying to bar the legality of spectral evidence.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked . . .1”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“Be not high-minded because of thy privileges, but fear because of thy danger. The more thou hast committed unto thee, the more thou must account for. No people’s account will be heavier than thine if thou do not walk worthy of the means of thy salvation. The Lord looks for more from thee than from other people: more zeal for God, more love to His truth, more justice and equity in thy ways. Thou shouldst be a special people, an only people—none like thee in all the earth.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons