A Treatise on the Religious Affections – Jonathan Edwards The Complete Book in Ten Audio Files
Description: PART 1 CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THE AFFECTIONS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN RELIGION SECTION I - Introductory remarks respecting the affections SECTION II - True religion, in great part, consists in the affections SECTION III - Some inferences deduced from the doctrine
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“ Standards of a Bygone Day ” While narrating the bio of Edwards for Sermon Audio, I came across this statement about this Treatise which really is amazing by our present standards and convictions. The quote is from Sereno Dwight, Edwards' biographer.
"It is also said that many persons cannot understand the treatise; {On the Religious Affections} and the answer is, that he who is too young to understand it in its substance, is too young to make a profession of religion; and he whose mind is too feeble to receive it substantially, when communicated by a kind and faithful pastor, cannot understandingly make such a profession."
T M S (3/6/2005)
from Jenison, MI
“ Searching Discourse ” Allen, Life of Edwards, 231 - "It has been said that any one who can read Edward's Religious Affections, and still believe in his conversion, may well have the highest assurance of its reality. But how few there were in Edwards' time who gained the assurance may be inferred from the circumstance that Samuel Hopkins and Nathaniel Emmons, disciples of Edwards and religious leaders in New England, remained to the last uncertain of their conversion." He can attribute this only to the semi-deistic spirit of the time, with its distant God and imperfect apprehension of the omnipotence and omnipresence of Christ. Quoted in A H Strong's Systematic Theology, p 846 John Wesley had little patience with this work, but reformed theologians and pastors, such as Edward Payson prized it greatly.
JONATHAN EDWARDS was born on October 5, 1703, in East Windsor, Connecticut, into a Puritan evangelical household. His childhood education as well as his undergraduate years (1716-1720) and graduate studies (1721-1722) at Yale College immersed him not only in the most current...
