Jonathan Edwards: A heavenly life is the way to heaven

[Reformed Covenanter]

The way to heaven is an heavenly life. We must be traveling towards heaven in a way of imitation of those that are in heaven, in imitation of the saints or angels therein, in their holy employments, in their way of spending their time in loving, adoring, serving, and praising God and the Lamb.

Jonathan Edwards, The True Christian’s Life a Journey Towards Heaven (1734) in Mark Valeri (ed.), Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733: The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 17 (New Haven CN: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 433.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

On a similar theme:

Labour to be converted, and sanctified, and to obtain such a disposition of mind that you may choose heaven for your inheritance and home, and may earnestly long for it, and be willing and desirous to change this world and all the enjoyment of it for heaven. Labour to have your heart so much taken up about heaven and heavenly enjoyments, as that you may rejoice at any time when God calls you to leave your best earthly friends and those things that are most comfortable to you here to go to heaven, there to enjoy God and Christ.

Jonathan Edwards, The True Christian’s Life a Journey Towards Heaven (1734) in Mark Valeri (ed.), Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733: The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 17 (New Haven CN: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 442.

 

[Gabriel Barnes]

Excellent quotations! Thanks for sharing.