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Book Description<\/h2>\n

Few Christian leaders since the Reformation have been as gifted as Jonathan Edwards. A man of intense personal devotion to Christ, he was a leader of revival, and a creative Reformed theologian as well as being a missionary and a philosopher fully meriting Hugh Martin’s description of him as ‘that greatest of metaphysical divines’.<\/p>\n

Yet it is likely that he would have preferred to be remembered simply as ‘pastor of the Church of Northampton’. Preached in 1738 (the same year that Edwards published A Narrative of Surprising Conversions<\/em>), Charity and Its Fruits<\/em> gives us an insight into his regular pulpit ministry in the years between the Northampton revival of 1735 and ‘the Great Awakening’ of 1740.<\/p>\n

Entirely free from sentimentality this moving exposition of 1 Corinthians 13, like the better known Religious Affections<\/em>, reveals Edwards’ insistence both that true Christian experience is ‘supernatural’\u2014Spirit-produced and Christ-centered\u2014and that ‘all true Christian grace tends to practice’. These sermons show how it is possible to steer between Arminianism on the one hand and Antinomianism on the other. The concluding chapter on heaven as a world of love is perhaps the most beautiful in all Edwards’s writings.<\/p>\n

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<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE I.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll True Grace In The Heart Summed Up In Charity, Or Love<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE II.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCharity, Or Love, More Excellent Than The Extraordinary Gifts Of The \u00a0 Spirit<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE III.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll That Can Be Done Or Suffered In Vain Without Charity, Or Love<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE IV.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCharity Meek In Bearing Evil And Injuries<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE V.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCharity Cheerful And Free In Doing Good<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE VI.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Spirit Of Charity The Opposite Of An Envious Spirit<\/td>\n111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE VII.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Spirit Of Charity An Humble Spirit<\/td>\n128<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE VIII.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Spirit Of Charity The Opposite Of A Selfish Spirit<\/td>\n157<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE IX.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Spirit Of Charity The Opposite Of An Angry Or Wrathful Spirit<\/td>\n186<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE X.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Spirit Of Charity The Opposite Of A Censorious Spirit<\/td>\n204<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE XI.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll True Grace In The Heart Tends To Holy Practice In The Life<\/td>\n221<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE XII.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCharity Willing To Undergo All Sufferings For Christ<\/td>\n251<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE XIII.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll The Christian Graces Connected And Mutually Dependent<\/td>\n268<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE XIV.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCharity, Or True Grace, Not To Be Overthrown By Opposition<\/td>\n285<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE XV.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Holy Spirit For Ever To Be Communicated To The Saints, In Charity, Or Love<\/td>\n304<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLECTURE XVI.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHeaven, A World Of Charity Or Love<\/td>\n323<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

We asked people how reading Edwards had benefitted them; this is what they said …
\nHere\u2019s What You Said About Jonathan Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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