From Part III of Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards.
ls it not God’s design that men should obtain assurance in any other way than by mortifying corruption, and increasing in grace, and obtaining the lively exercises of it. And although self-examination be a duty of great use and importance, and by no means to be neglected, yet it not to be…

Below is an excerpt from a sermon “Growth in Grace” by Spurgeon.
There are some of you, beloved, who think you are not growing in grace because you do not feel as lively as you used to do.  “Ah!” say you, “when I was young every thing was good then.  What peaceful hours I then enjoyed.  I would go over…

In his discourse on “Justification by Faith alone” Jonathan Edwards thus defines justification: “A person is said to be justified when he is approved of God as free from the guilt of sin and its deserved punishment; and as having that righteousness belonging to him that entitles to the reward of life. That we should take the word in such…

Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy, has given to me, an unworthy, condemned, and contemptible creature all the riches of justification and salvation in Christ, so that I no longer am in want of anything, except of faith to believe that this is so. For such a Father, then, who has overwhelmed…

Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian ‘conception’ of God. An intellectual assent to that idea is held to be of itself sufficient to secure remission of sins. The Church which holds the correct doctrine of grace has,…