Quotes to Consider (2)

In one his miscellaneous discourses “Men Naturally God’s Enemies” Johnathan Edwards speaks of the degree of the enmity that all men have toward God. I’ve posted his first point, you can find the rest of them here.

I NOW proceed to say something with respect to the degree of this enmity: tending in some measure to show, how great enemies to God are natural men.

1. They have no love to God; their enmity is mere enmity without any mixture of love. A natural man is wholly destitute of any principle of love to God, and therefore never had the least exercise of this love. Some natural men have better tempers than others; and some are better educated than others; and some live a great deal more soberly than others: but one has no more love to God than another; for none have the least spark of that. The heart of a natural man is as destitute of love to God, as a dead, stiff, cold corpse is of vital heat. John v. 43. “I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.”

~ by Michael Cordich on March 30, 2009.