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Edwards (49) [“good works” 703]
Mosiah 5:15
Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in
good works, that Christ, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal you his,
that you may be brought to heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and
eternal life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who
created all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all. Amen.
Ether
12:4 Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope
for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope
cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them
sure and steadfast, always abounding in good
works, being led to glorify God.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
(2 Corinthians 9:8)
24 And see that ye have faith, hope, and charity, and then ye will always abound in good works.
(Alma 7:24)
26. Jonathan Edwards. Religious Affections (WJE Online... [page 488 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
of God, but
also as that which is like to be to their own eternal loss and damage. 2dly,
that nothing can be inferred from the forementioned promise tending to set
aside, or make void the influence of motives to earnest endeavors to avoid all
sin, to increase in holiness, and abound in good works , from an aim
at an high and eminent degree of glory and happiness in the future world. 3dly,
that though it is to the eternal damage of the saints, ordinarily, when they
yield to, and are overcome by temptations, yet Satan and other enemies of the
saints by whom these
65. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses 1720-1723... [page 109 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section]
Has any man
much spiritual comfort and strong hope? Let it not exalt him. Let him ascribe
{the glory of it to God}. Is any man eminent for holiness? Doth any man abound
in good works ? Let him take nothing of it to
himself, but to Him [through] whose workmanship we are created in Christ Jesus
to good works. And then the printed version: And this doctrine should teach us
to exalt God alone as by trust and reliance, so by praise.
119. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729... [page 244 | Paragraph | Section]
"measure"
of the Spirit given to them by God. In some, grace is strong, in others weak.
Some abound in good works, though they are not "in
proportion to the degree of internal holiness." In other words, there is
not necessarily a direct correlation between the degree of inherent
righteousness and good works . God himself, and more specifically
his good pleasure, is the "foundation" of this difference as well as
its end. God sovereignly bestows grace in varying degrees because he
establishes different work for different people in the church, because some are
bound to suffer more than others, and
15.
Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729... [page 273 | Paragraph |
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much
of the fruits of grace. As the fruit of a tree is the most excellent part, so
is the fruit of a Christian. 'Tis the greatest honor and excellency of a
Christian to be abundant in bearing fruit, as it is the greatest dishonor to be
barren or to bear but little fruit. The abounding of grace in the heart will
cause an answerable abounding of good works.
It tends as much to it as the goodness of ground and good tillage tends to its
fruitfulness.
20.
Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738... [page 622 | Paragraph |
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get
nothing in this world, but not do as worldly-minded men do, be striving
insatiably to hoard up, and keep adding to our worldly good things; but rather
strive to add to our inheritance in heaven, and heap up treasure there; labor
daily to increase our interest there by doing
good works, and abounding in them; as appears by [the] Luke 12:33.
"Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not
old, a treasure in the heavens." Obj.
128. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729... [page 273 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
part, so is
the fruit of a Christian. 'Tis the greatest honor and excellency of a Christian
to be abundant in bearing fruit, as it is the greatest dishonor to be barren or
to bear but little fruit. The abounding of grace in the heart will cause an
answerable abounding of good works . It tends as
much to it as the goodness of ground and good tillage tends to its
fruitfulness. But here the following things may be particularly considered:
First. Consider that it is a certain sign you have no grace, if you don't
desire and
129. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729... [page 275 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
in hope of the
glory of God! Fifth. JE originally numbered this point 4. And lastly, consider
that the more gracious and fruitful you are here, the more glory will you have
hereafter; so that they that abound in grace
and good works , they will have infinite benefit by
it. It must be so that glory will be greater or less in some proportion to
grace and good works, or else persons would have no eternal benefit at all by
being more in good works than others. He that spends and is spent in laboring for
the glory of God,
181. Jonathan Edwards. Notes on Scripture (WJE Online... [page 547 | Paragraph | Section]
2. Nothing can
be inferred from that promise in Romans 8:28, tending to set aside or
abate the influence of motives to earnest endeavors to avoid all sin, and to
increase in holiness, and abound in good works , from a view
to an high and eminent degree of glory in the eternal world. 3. We may learn
from the things that have been observed, how it may be to the eternal loss and
damage of the saints when they yield to and [are] overcome by temptations; and
yet Satan and other enemies of the
309. Jonathan Edwards. The
"Miscellanies," 833-1152 (WJE... [page 210 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
little or no rain; the cloud does as it were spend itself in wind.
So if professors place religion very much in religious discourse, and abound very much in
talking of their own experiences, it is a wonder if their religion don't spend
itself that way, so that [there] should be but little fruit in good works . And by this
means true Christians will be too much like false professors, whom the Apostle,
for their being much in declaring their own goodness, compares to clouds
without water carried about of winds, Jude 12. This
