Classics
Religious Affections
Jonathan Edwards · 1746
Edwards on telling true conversion from its counterfeits: which signs of religious feeling prove nothing, and the twelve that mark the work of the Spirit.
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Contents
- Introduction
- Part I (part 1 of 2)
- Part I (part 2 of 2)
- Part II
- I. It Is No Sign One Way or the Other, That Religious Affections Are Very Great, or Raised Very High
- II. It Is No Sign That Affections Have the Nature of True Religion, or That They Have Not, That They Have Great Effects on the Body
- III. It is no sign that affections are truly gracious affections, or that they are not, that they cause those who have them to be fluent, fervent, and abundant, in talking of the things of religion
- 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
- V. It is no sign that religious affections are truly holy and spiritual, or that they are not, that they come with texts of Scripture, remarkably brought to the mind
- VI. It Is No Evidence That Religious Affections Are Saving, or That They Are Otherwise, That There Is an Appearance of Love in Them
- VII. Persons having religious affections of many kinds, accompanying one another, is not sufficient to determine whether they have any gracious affections or no
- VIII. Nothing can certainly be determined concerning the nature of the affections, by this, that comforts and joys seem to follow awakenings and convictions of conscience, in a certain order
- XI. It is no sign that affections are right, or that they are wrong, that they make persons that have them exceeding confident that what they experience is divine, and that they are in a good estate
- Part III
- I. Affections that are truly spiritual and gracious, do arise from those influences and operations on the heart, which are spiritual, supernatural and divine (part 1 of 3)
- I. Affections that are truly spiritual and gracious, do arise from those influences and operations on the heart, which are spiritual, supernatural and divine (part 2 of 3)
- I. Affections that are truly spiritual and gracious, do arise from those influences and operations on the heart, which are spiritual, supernatural and divine (part 3 of 3)
- IV. Gracious Affections Do Arise from the Mind's Being Enlightened, Richly and Spiritually to Understand or Apprehend Divine Things (part 1 of 2)
- IV. Gracious Affections Do Arise from the Mind's Being Enlightened, Richly and Spiritually to Understand or Apprehend Divine Things (part 2 of 2)
- V. Truly gracious affections are attended with a reasonable and spiritual conviction of the judgment, of the reality and certainty of divine things (part 1 of 3)
- V. Truly gracious affections are attended with a reasonable and spiritual conviction of the judgment, of the reality and certainty of divine things (part 2 of 3)
- V. Truly gracious affections are attended with a reasonable and spiritual conviction of the judgment, of the reality and certainty of divine things (part 3 of 3)
- VII. Another Thing, Wherein Gracious Affections Are Distinguished from Others, Is, That They Are Attended with a Change of Nature
- IX. Gracious Affections Soften the Heart, and Are Attended and Followed with a Christian Tenderness of Spirit
- X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion (part 1 of 4)
- X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion (part 2 of 4)
- X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion (part 3 of 4)
- X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion (part 4 of 4)
Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.