There is nothing that belongs
to Christian experience that is more liable to a corrupt mixture than
zeal; though it be an excellent virtue, a heavenly flame, when it is
pure: but as it is exercised in those who are so little sanctified, and
so little humbled, as we are in the present state, 'tis very apt to be
mixed with human passion, yea, with corrupt hateful affections, pride
and uncharitable bitterness, and other things that are not from heaven
but from hell. (Jonathan Edwards, Thoughts Concerning the Revival, in Yale ed. of Works of Jonathan Edwards, 4:460)
In a 1743 letter to Thomas Prince in Boston, Edwards put it this way: the degree of grace is by no means to be judged of by . . . the degree of zeal. (ibid., 556)
In a 1743 letter to Thomas Prince in Boston, Edwards put it this way: the degree of grace is by no means to be judged of by . . . the degree of zeal. (ibid., 556)
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