Jonathan Edwards – O That I Might Be Kept From Secret Faults!

4 Aug

Friday night, Oct. 12 I see there are some things quite contrary to the soundness and perfection of Christianity, in which almost all good men do allow themselves, and where innate corruption has an unrestrained secret vent, which they never take notice of, or think to be no hurt, or cloak under the name of virtue; which things exceedingly darken the brightness, and hide the loveliness of Christianity. Who can understand his errors? O that I might be kept from secret faults!

~Jonathan Edwards~



The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Peabody, Massachusetts; Hendrickson Publishers; 2007) p. lxxv.

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