Too often I think we think of Jonathan Edwards as being that “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” guy. In fact, he was much more. I once heard an interviewee on NPR remark that Edwards was one of the top five intellectual persons that America has ever produced. He wrote the following when he was just nineteen-years-old:
“Resolved, to endeavor to my utmost to deny whatever is not most agreeable to a good, and universally sweet and benevolent, quiet, peaceable, contented, easy, compassionate, generous, humble, meek, modest, submissive, obliging, diligent and industrious, charitable, even, patient, moderate, forgiving, sincere temper; and to do at all times what such a temper would lead me to. Examine strictly every week, whether I have done so.”
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