Danger of Relying on Spiritual Impressions Here’s Marsden’s summary of Edwards on the danger of relying on spiritual impressions: ““Never one to put politeness above principle, Edwards had already taken the young man (Whitefield) aside and spoken to him privately about the danger of relying on ‘impulses.’ Whitefield and many of his fellow awakeners were […]
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Edwards on Judging Whether Someone is Truly a Christian or Not (from Marsden’s biography ‘Jonathan Edwards: A Life’) “Perhaps most important for those who were alarmed at the awakenings’ excesses was that Edwards warned strongly against the censorious spirit that was becoming epidemic in the awakening. Following the lead of the itinerant, converts like […]
