2 Peter 1:5
Knowing God
Divine truths not only concern ministers, but are of infinite importance to all Christians. It is not with the doctrine of divinity as it is with the doctrines of philosophy and other sciences. These last are general speculative points, which are of little concern in human life; and it very little alters the case as to our temporal or spiritual interests, whether we know them or not.
Philosophers differ about them, some being of one opinion, and others of another. And while they are engaged in warm disputes about them, others may well leave them to dispute among themselves, without troubling their heads much about them; it being of little concern to them, whether the one or the other is in the right, but it is not thus in matters of divinity. The doctrines of this nearly concern every one. They are about those things which relate to every man’s eternal salvation and happiness.
The common people cannot say, Let us leave these matters to ministers and divines; let them dispute them out among themselves as they can; they concern not us: for they are of infinite importance to every man, those doctrines which relate to the essence, attributes, and subsistencies of God, concern all; as it is of infinite importance to common people, as well as to ministers, to know what kind of being God is. For he is a Being who has made us all, “in whom we live, and move, and have our being;” who is the Lord of all; the Being to whom we are all accountable; who is the last end of our being, and the only fountain of our happiness.
Readings taken from Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards
Knowing God
Divine truths not only concern ministers, but are of infinite importance to all Christians. It is not with the doctrine of divinity as it is with the doctrines of philosophy and other sciences. These last are general speculative points, which are of little concern in human life; and it very little alters the case as to our temporal or spiritual interests, whether we know them or not.
Philosophers differ about them, some being of one opinion, and others of another. And while they are engaged in warm disputes about them, others may well leave them to dispute among themselves, without troubling their heads much about them; it being of little concern to them, whether the one or the other is in the right, but it is not thus in matters of divinity. The doctrines of this nearly concern every one. They are about those things which relate to every man’s eternal salvation and happiness.
The common people cannot say, Let us leave these matters to ministers and divines; let them dispute them out among themselves as they can; they concern not us: for they are of infinite importance to every man, those doctrines which relate to the essence, attributes, and subsistencies of God, concern all; as it is of infinite importance to common people, as well as to ministers, to know what kind of being God is. For he is a Being who has made us all, “in whom we live, and move, and have our being;” who is the Lord of all; the Being to whom we are all accountable; who is the last end of our being, and the only fountain of our happiness.
Readings taken from Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards
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