We are posting excerpts from Jonathan Edwards' biography of David Brainerd because of its importance in understanding the language of the Book of Mormon. This will become apparent in the coming excerpts.
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Jesus Christ, the great prophet of God, when he came into the world to be "the light of the world", to teach and enforce true religion, in a greater degree than ever had been before, he made use of both these methods:
In his doctrine he declared the mind and will of God, and the nature and properties of that virtue which becomes creatures of our make and in our circumstances, more clearly and fully than ever it had been before, and more powerfully enforced it by what he declared of the obligations and inducements to holiness;
and he also in his own practice gave a most perfect example of the virtue he taught.
He exhibited to the world such an illustrious pattern of humility, divine love, discreet zeal, self-denial, obedience, patience, resignation, fortitude, meekness, forgiveness, compassion, benevolence, and universal holiness, as neither men nor angels ever saw before.
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Jesus Christ, the great prophet of God, when he came into the world to be "the light of the world", to teach and enforce true religion, in a greater degree than ever had been before, he made use of both these methods:
In his doctrine he declared the mind and will of God, and the nature and properties of that virtue which becomes creatures of our make and in our circumstances, more clearly and fully than ever it had been before, and more powerfully enforced it by what he declared of the obligations and inducements to holiness;
and he also in his own practice gave a most perfect example of the virtue he taught.
He exhibited to the world such an illustrious pattern of humility, divine love, discreet zeal, self-denial, obedience, patience, resignation, fortitude, meekness, forgiveness, compassion, benevolence, and universal holiness, as neither men nor angels ever saw before.
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