Reading Classics - Edwards Takes a Day Off

  • Tim Challies
  • 09/25/08
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Thursdays are the day I dedicate to reading and writing about the classic books of the Christian faith. We're well into Jonathan Edwards' Religious Affections and have been moving at about a chapter (or heading) per week. This week I did not live up to my end of the bargain. It was one of those crazy weeks where it seems I spent more time out of the house than in and where the time I spent in the house was dedicated to everything but reading. So with my apologies I am going to have to bump this week's reading into next week. Hopefully this gives us all a chance to take a breather and catch up with our reading. I'll bring you the next update next Thursday. Sorry!

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a comment from Mike • 09/25 @ 9:24am

Thats fine Tim. He's difficult and not the easiest to read, especially while distracted. Though I wonder if Edwards ever did take a day off....

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a comment from Paul Martin • 09/25 @ 11:22am
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That's what happens when you take a day off of work to serve pastors!

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a comment from Laurie • 09/25 @ 1:13pm

Perfect timing. I'm only about 2/3 of the way through this week's reading. Now I can catch up - and pray. This one gives a lot to soul-search over.

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a comment from Kwame Nyarko • 09/25 @ 6:31pm

Tim,

You have done a great job leading us through these readings. Even moving today's post to next week is for the good of us all. Agreeing with Laurie, some more soul searching opportunities.

Thanks,KAN

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a comment from Lynn Cross • 09/25 @ 7:30pm

I thank you too Tim. I am already behind and I hope this will give me the weekend to catch up. Enjoying it very much.

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a comment from Thomas Sullivan • 09/26 @ 6:49am
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I actually read ahead last week and found the chapter very humbling. I could study it for another week, however, and still not exhaust the self application.

If you compare it with a section of "Thoughts on the Present Revival of Religion" by Edwards - there is a section titled, Undiscerned Spiritual Pride.

THEN I compare that with Thomas Boston's Human Nature in Its Fourfold State" The Branches Taken Out of the Natural Stock and Grafted Into Supernatural Stock. After then BEGINNING to understand the nature of pride and SELF righteousness, one begins to see that two weeks is very necessary to do a self analysis.

J. Edwards states that we don't know very easily how deep the spiritual pride is rooted.