Charity and Its Fruits

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Jonathan Edwards. Charity and Its Fruits

Introduction

Lecture I

Lecture II

Lecture III

Lecture IV

Lecture V

Lecture VI

Lecture VII

Lecture VIII

Lecture IX

Lecture X

Lecture XI

Lecture XII

Lecture XIII

Lecture XIV

Lecture XV

Lecture XVI

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CHARITY AND ITS FRUITS

CHRISTIAN LOVE AS MANIFESTED

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And so, whatever good carriage there may be in men toward their neighbors, yet reason teaches that it is all unacceptable and in vain, if at the same time there be no real respect in the heart toward those neighbors; if the outward conduct is not prompted by inward love. And from these two things taken together, viz. that love is of such a nature that it will produce all virtues, and dispose to all duties to God and men, and that without it there can be no sincere virtue, and no duty at all properly performed, the truth of the doctrine follows—that all true and distinguishing Christian virtue and grace may be summed up in love.

2. The Scriptures teach us that love is the sum of all that is contained in the law of God, and of all the duties required in his word. This the Scriptures teach of the law in general, and of each table of the law in particular.

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