https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/podcasts/174383/ Puritan and Reformed Pastoral Sermons narrated by T M Sullivan, first for his own benefit and warning, 2nd to supplement others in their meditations in solitude or groups. Religion & Spirituality The Narrated Puritan http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://vps.sermonaudio.com/resize_image/sources/podcast/1440/1440/soluschristus.1649373899.jpg https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/podcasts/174383/ en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:15:40 +0000 30 Thomas Sullivan no Puritan and Reformed Pastoral Sermons narrated by T M Sullivan, first for his own benefit and warning, 2nd to supplement others in their meditations in solitude or groups. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/822251249264331 Christian practice is a distinguishing and sure evidence of grace to persons' own consciences. We cannot reasonably suppose, when the Scripture in this case speaks of good works, good fruit, and keeping Christ's commandments, that it has respect merely to what is external, or the motion and action of the body, without including respect to any aim or intention of the agent, or any act of his understanding or will. For consider men's actions so, and they are no more good works or acts of obedience, than the regular motions of a clock; nor are they considered as any human actions at all. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/822251249264331 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 1:30:42 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/821251951464051 Scripture plainly teaches, that practice is the best evidence of the sincerity of professing Christians; so reason teaches the same thing. Reason shows, that men's deeds are better and more faithful interpreters of their minds, than their words. The common sense of all mankind, through all ages and nations, teaches them to judge of men's hearts chiefly by their practice, in other matters: as, whether a man be a loyal subject, a true lover, a dutiful child, or a faithful servant. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/821251951464051 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:51:19 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/820251541323828 It is with hypocrites, as it was with Ephraim of old, at a time when God greatly complains of their hypocrisy; Hos. vii. 8. "Ephraim is a cake not turned," half roasted and half raw: there is commonly no manner of uniformity in their affections. There is in many of them a great partiality, with regard to the several kinds of religious affections; great affections in some things, and no proportion in others. A holy hope and holy fear go together in the saints, Psal. xxxiii. 18. and cxlvii. 11. But in some of these there is the most confident hope, while they are void of reverence, self-jealousy, and caution, and while they to a great degree cast off fear. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/820251541323828 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:28:47 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/816251228347249 Truly gracious affections are attended with a conviction of the reality and certainty of divine things. This seems to be implied in the text that was laid as the foundation of this discourse, Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory. All gracious persons have a solid, full, thorough, and effectual conviction of the truth of the great things of the gospel. They no longer halt between two opinions; the great doctrines of the gospel cease to be any longer doubtful things, https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/816251228347249 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:52:45 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/815251629302612 An unequaled explanation of what it means to being "led By The Spirit. "Gracious affections arise from the mind being enlightened rightly and spirituality to apprehend divine things. Holy affections are not heat without light; but evermore arise from some information of the understanding, some spiritual instruction that the mind receives, some light or actual knowledge. The child of God is graciously affected, because he sees and understands something more of divine things than he did before, more of God or Christ, and of the glorious things exhibited in the gospel." https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/815251629302612 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 1:02:15 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/81425115254138 Nothing can be certainly concluded concerning the nature of religious affections, that the relations persons give of them, are very affecting. The true saints have not such a spirit of discerning, that they can certainly determine who are godly, and who are not. For though they know experimentally what true religion is, in the internal exercises of it, yet these are what they can neither feel nor see, in the heart of another. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/81425115254138 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:21:25 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/813251954148104 SECT. XI.   It is no sign that affections are right, or that they are wrong, that they make persons exceeding confident. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/813251954148104 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:35:21 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/811251711236411 Persons having religious affections of many kinds, accompanying one another, is not sufficient to determine whether they have any gracious affections or not. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/811251711236411 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:10:43 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/811251719547350 It is no certain sign that affections have in them the nature of true religion, or that they have not, that they dispose persons to spend much time in religion, and to be zealously engaged in the external duties of worship. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/811251719547350 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:06:38 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/811251953295669 Nothing can be certainly known of the nature of religious affections, that they much dispose persons with their mouths to praise and glorify God. This indeed is implied in what has been just now observed, of abounding and spending much time in the external exercises of religion, and was also hinted before; but because many seem to look upon it as a bright evidence of gracious affection, when persons appear greatly disposed to praise and magnify God, to have their mouths full of his praises, and affectionately to be calling on others to praise and extol him, I thought it deserved a more particular consideration. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/811251953295669 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:05:16 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/81025219197026 The moral excellency of an intelligent voluntary being, is more immediately seated in the heart or wilt. That intelligent being whose will is truly right and lovely, he is morally good or excellent.--This moral excellency, when it is true and real, is holiness. Therefore holiness comprehends all the true moral excellency of intelligent beings: there is no other true virtue, but real holiness. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/81025219197026 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:30:04 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/892512452337 There is a kind of love or affection towards persons or things, which does properly arise from self-love. A preconceived relation to himself, or some respect already manifested by another to him, or some benefit already received or depended on, is truly the first foundation of his love; what precedes any relish of, or delight in, the nature and qualities inherent in the being beloved, as beautiful and amiable. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/892512452337 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:34:53 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/731251114594543 it. It may be observed, that the more excellent any thing is, the more will be the counterfeits of it. Thus there are many more counterfeits of silver and gold, than of iron and copper: there are many false diamonds and rubies, but who goes about to counterfeit common stones? Though the more excellent things are, the more difficult it is to make any thing like them, in their essential nature and internal virtue; yet the more manifold will the counterfeits be, and the more will art and subtlety be exercised and displayed, in an exact imitation of the outward appearance. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/731251114594543 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:04:25 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/714251120238 Every thing that appertains to holiness of heart, does indeed belong to the nature of true Christianity, and the character of Christians; but a spirit of holiness, as appearing in some particular graces, may more especially be called the christian spirit or temper. Some amiable qualities and virtues more especially agree with the nature of the gospel constitution, and christian profession; because there is a special agreeableness in them with those divine attributes which God has more remarkably manifested and glorified in the work of redemption by Jesus Christ, the grand subject of the christian revelation. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/714251120238 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:44:14 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/7825218452942 Though grace, while imperfect, does not root out an evil natural temper, yet it is of great power and efficacy to correct it. The change wrought in conversion, is an universal change: grace changes a man with respect to whatever is sinful in him; the old man is put off, and the new man put on; he is sanctified throughout. He is become a new creature, old things are passed away, and all things are become new; all sin is mortified, constitutional sins, as well as others. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/7825218452942 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:12:12 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/7425122444723 Real humiliation is what all the most glorious hypocrites, who make the most splendid show of mortification to the world, and high religious affection, grossly fail in. Were it not that this is so much insisted on in Scripture, as a most essential thing in true grace; one would be tempted to think that many of the heathen philosophers were truly gracious, in whom was so bright an appearance of many virtues, and also great illuminations, and inward fervours and elevations of mind, as though they were truly the subjects of divine illapses and heavenly communications. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/7425122444723 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 1:08:54 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/626252251234042 It is a spiritual work in this high sense; and therefore above all other works is peculiar to the Spirit of God. There is no work so high and excellent; for there is no work wherein God doth so much communicate himself, and wherein the mere creature hath, in so high a sense, a participation of God; so that it is expressed in Scripture by the saints being made partakers of the divine, nature, 2 Pet. i. 4. and having God dwelling in them, and they in God. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/626252251234042 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 1:39:37 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/624251120322029 the higher gracious affections are raised, the more is a spiritual appetite and longing of soul after spiritual attainments increased: on the contrary, false affections rest satisfied in themselves. The more a true saint loves God with a gracious love, the more he desires to love him, and the more uneasy is he at his want of love to him: the more he hates sin, the more he desires to hate it, and laments that he has so much remaining love to it. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/624251120322029 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:15:31 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/62425115837356 If we consider those extraordinary manifestations which God made of himself to saints of old, we shall find that he commonly first manifested himself in a way which was terrible, and then by those things that were comfortable. So it was with Abraham; first, a horror of great darkness fell upon him, and then God revealed himself to him in sweet promises. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/62425115837356 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:31:31 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/62425124166982 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/62425124166982 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:49:59 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61825113301715 It is no certain sign that affections are gracious, that they arise on occasion of scriptures brought suddenly and wonderfully to the mind; whether those affections be fear or hope, joy or sorrow, or any other. Some seem to look upon this as a good evidence that their affections are saving, especially if the affections excited are hope or joy, or any other which are pleasing and delightful. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61825113301715 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:08:39 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/6112511322370 It is no evidence that affections are gracious, that they are not purposely produced by those who are the subjects of them, or that they arise in their minds in a manner which they cannot account for. There are some who make this an argument in their own favour, when speaking of what they have experienced: "I am sure I did not make it myself: it was a fruit of no contrivance or endeavour of mine; it came when I thought nothing of it; if I might have the world for it, I cannot make it again when I please." And hence they determine, that what they have experienced, must be from the mighty influence of the Spirit of God, https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/6112511322370 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:11:59 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/69251259175879 Treatise on the Religious Affections - Part One Negative Sign 2 Great effects on the body certainly are no sure evidences that affections are spiritual; for we see them oftentimes arise from great affections about temporal things, and when religion is no way concerned in them. And if great affections about things purely natural may have these effects, I know not by what rule we should determine, that high affections about religious things, which arise in like manner from nature, cannot have the like effect. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/69251259175879 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:09:35 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/692513237291 Treatise on the Religious Affections - Part One Negative Sign 3 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/692513237291 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:05:36 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61251158171161 Religious Affections - Part 2 - Negative Sign 1 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61251158171161 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:12:08 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/528251112157662 They who condemn high affections in others, are certainly not likely to have high affections themselves. And let it be considered, that they who have but little religious affection, have certainly but little religion. And they who condemn others for their religious affections, and have none themselves, have no religion. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/528251112157662 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 28 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:14:12 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/527251122306316 The affections and passions are frequently spoken of as the same; and yet, in the more common use of speech, there is in some respect a difference. Affection is a word, that, in its ordinary signification, seems to be something more extensive than passion, being used for all vigorous lively actings of the will or inclination; but passion is used for those that are more sudden, and whose effects on the animal spirits are more violent, the mind being more overpowered, and less in its own command. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/527251122306316 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 27 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:08:48 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/5282502556434 If we be not in good earnest in religion, and our wills and inclinations be not strongly exercised, we are nothing. The things of religion are so great, that there can be no suitableness in the exercises of our hearts, to their nature and importance, unless they be lively and powerful. In nothing is vigour in the actings of our inclinations so requisite, as in religion; and in nothing is lukewarmness so odious. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/5282502556434 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 27 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:57:26 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/523251049301767 In the text, the apostle observes how true religion operated in these Christians under their persecutions, whereby these benefits appeared in them; or what manner of operation it was, whereby their religion, under persecution, was manifested to be true religion in its genuine beauty and amiableness, and also appeared to be increased and purified, and so was like to be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/523251049301767 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 23 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:07:59 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/22725124104133 There is doubtless true religion in heaven, and true religion in its utmost purity and perfection. But according to the Scripture representation of the heavenly state, the religion of heaven consists chiefly in holy and mighty love and joy, and the expression of these in most fervent and exalted praises. So that the religion of the saints in heaven, consists in the same things with that religion of the saints on earth, which is spoken of in our text, viz., love, and "joy unspeakable and full of glory." https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/22725124104133 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:13:06 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/226251142202750 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/226251142202750 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:09:21 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/82824115534176 What I aim at in this treatise, is to show the nature and signs of the gracious operations of God's Spirit, by which they are to be distinguished from all things whatsoever, that the minds of men are the subjects of, which are not of a saving nature. If I have succeeded, in this my aim, in any tolerable measure, I hope it will tend to promote the interest of religion. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/82824115534176 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:15:39 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/827241149197654 A little child is easily affrighted at the appearance of outward evils, or anything that threatens its hurt: so is a Christian apt to be alarmed at the appearance of moral evil, and anything that threatens the hurt of the soul. A little child, when it meets enemies, or fierce beasts, is not apt to trust its own strength, but flies to its parents for refuge: so a saint is not self-confident in engaging spiritual enemies, but flies to Christ. Treatise on the Religious Affections Chapter 9 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/827241149197654 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:19:17 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/32724104255331 That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. God, in his word, greatly insists upon it, that we be in good earnest, fervent in spirit, and our hearts vigorously engaged in religion: Rom. xii. 11. "Be ye fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. " Deut. x. 12. "And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul?" And chap. vi. 4, 5. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." It is such a fervent, vigorous engagedness of the heart in religion, that is the fruit of a real circumcision of the heart, or true regeneration, and that has the promises of life: Deut. xxx. 6. "And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. " If we are not in good earnest in religion, and our wills and inclinations are not strongly exercised, we are nothing. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/32724104255331 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:21:01 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/7192311120977 Practice is the best evidence of the sincerity of professing Christians; so reason teaches the same thing. Reason shows, that men's deeds are better and more faithful interpreters of their minds, than their words. The common sense of all mankind, through all ages and nations, teaches them to judge of men's hearts chiefly by their practice, in other matters; as, whether a man be a loyal subject, a true lover, a dutiful child, or a faithful servant. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/7192311120977 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:17:27 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/79231237154194 not discerned and distinguished, that the devil has had his greatest advantage against the cause and kingdom of Christ, all along hitherto. It is by this means, principally, that he has prevailed against all revivings of religion, that ever have been sheen the first founding of the Christian church. By this, he hurt the cause of Christianity, in and after the apostolic age, much more than by all the persecutions of both Jews and Heathens. The apostles, in all their epistles, show themselves much more concerned at the former mischief, than the latter. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/79231237154194 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 09 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:16:22 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/528231235467923 Letter to Thomas Gillespie, pastor in Scotland. 9/4/1747 But I conceive that there is a great deal of difference between these two things, viz. its being a man's duty that is without spiritual light or sight to believe, and its being his duty to believe without spiritual light or sight, or to believe while he yet remains without spiritual light or sight. Just the same difference that is between these two things, viz. its being his duty that has no faith to believe, and its being his duty to believe without faith, or to believe without believing. I trust there is none will assert the latter, because of the contradiction that it implies. As it is not proper to say, it is a man's duty to believe without faith, because it implies a contradiction, so I think it equally improper to say it is a man's duty to believe without these things that are essentially implied in faith, because that also implies a contradiction. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/528231235467923 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 28 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:32:31 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/420231141177691 Zeal is also spoken of, as a very essential part of the religion of true saints. This was a great thing which Christ had in view, in giving himself for our redemption: Tit. ii. 14. "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." And this was the great thing wanting in the luke-warm Laodiceans. (Rev. 3:15, 16, 19. ) https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/420231141177691 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:27:57 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/2222304151428 Negative Signs #7 Men, while in a state of nature, are capable of a resemblance of all kinds of religious affections, so nothing hinders but that they may have many of them together. And what appears in fact, does abundantly evince that it is very often so indeed. It seems commonly to be so, that when false affections are raised high, many false affections attend each other. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/2222304151428 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:11:30 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/218231647214681 What deceives many of the less understanding and considerate sort of people, in this matter, seems to be this; that the Scripture is the word of God, and has nothing in it which is wrong, but is pure and perfect; and therefore, those experiences which come from the Scripture must be right. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/218231647214681 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:12:34 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/217231240146001 A Treatise on the Religious Affections Part 2 - 1 It is no sign of conversion one way or the other, that religious affections are very great, or raised very high. It is no evidence that religious affections are of a spiritual and gracious nature, because they are great. It is very manifest by the holy Scripture, our sure and infallible rule to judge of things of this nature, that there are religious affections which are very high, that are not spiritual and saving. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/217231240146001 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 17 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:23:31 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/2182333911876 IV. It is no sign that affections are gracious, or that they are otherwise, that persons did not make them themselves, or excite them of their own contrivance and by their own strength. It is no evidence that affections are gracious, that they are not properly produced by those who are the subjects of them, or that they arise in their minds in a manner they cannot account for. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/2182333911876 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 17 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:18:26 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/21223143846016 Gracious affections are of a quite contrary tendency; they turn a heart of stone more and more into a heart of flesh. A holy love and hope are principles that are vastly more efficacious upon the heart, to make it tender, and to fill it with a dread of sin, or whatever might displease and offend God, and to engage it to watchfulness, and care, and strictness, than a slavish fear of hell. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/21223143846016 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:19:21 no Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections