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This dictate of common sense.

— Jonathan Edwards

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  1. I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
  2. Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, w…
  3. You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
  4. Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
  5. Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should le…
  6. Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.
  7. 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 dreadfu…
  8. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

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  • life
  • common sense
  • judgment
  • reason

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