From Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions:
4. Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.
7. Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life.
This young man was serious. And as a biographer once noted of him, it appears that Edwards really did aim at keeping, and in measure did keep, his seventy resolutions, written as a young man, all the way to the end.
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