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http://www.apuritansmind.com/the-christian-walk/jonathan-edwards-resolutions/
What do you think about them?
Is there one that stands out to you as one that you need to adopt for yourself?
It's an interesting list and it's interesting to know that he wrote them when he was about 20 years old.
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Ann thank you for posting, a lot of mature thoughts for a 20-year old, that is amazing. The following resolutions are ones I personally would like to work on more:
16. Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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28. Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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31. Resolved, never to say anything at all against anybody, but when it is perfectly agreeable to the highest degree of Christian honor, and of love to mankind, agreeable to the lowest humility, and sense of my own faults and failings, and agreeable to the golden rule; often, when I have said anything against anyone, to bring it to, and try it strictly by the test of this Resolution
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56. Resolved, never to give over, nor in the least to slacken my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be.
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58. Resolved, not only to refrain from an air of dislike, fretfulness, and anger in conversation, but to exhibit an air of love, cheerfulness and benignity. May27, and July 13, 1723.
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Glad he wasn't my pastor. Did he add these laws to the 613 statements and the NT appendix to the Tanakh?
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Umm - these were his own personal resolutions - not for anyone else.
Note the "I" in all of them?