Resolution #34

"Resolved, in narrations never to speak anything but the pure and simple verity."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #33

"Resolved, to do always, what I can towards making, maintaining, and preserving peace, when it can be done without overbalancing detriment in other respects."

-Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #32

"Resolved, to be strictly and firmly faithful to my trust, that that, in Proverbs 20:6, "A faithful man who can find?", may not be partly fulfilled in me."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #31

"Resolved, never to say anything at all against anybody, but when it is perfectly agreeable to the highest degree of Christian honor, and of love to mankind, agreeable to the lowest humility, and sense of my own faults and failings, and agreeable to the golden rule; often, when I have said anything against anyone, to bring it to, and try it strictly by the test of this Resolution."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #30

"Resolved, to strive to my utmost every week to be brought higher in religion, and to a higher exercise of grace, than I was the week before."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #29

"Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #28

"Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #27

"Resolved, never willfully to omit anything, except the omission be for the glory of God; and frequently to examine my omissions."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #26

"Resolved, to cast away such things, as I find do abate my assurance."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #25

"Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #24

"Resolved, whenever I do any conspicuously evil action, to trace it back, till I come to the original cause; and then, both carefully endeavor to do so no more, and to fight and pray with all my might against the original of it."

- Jonathan Edwards

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Resolution #23

"Resolved, frequently to take some deliberate action, which seems most unlikely to be done, for the glory of God, and trace it back to the original intention, designs and ends of it; and if I find it not be for God's glory, to repute it as a breach of the 4th resolution."

- Jonathan Edwards

For review, this is the 4th resolution:

"Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #22

"Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of, or can bring myself to exert, in any way that can be thought of."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #21

"Resolved, never to do anything, which if I should see in another, I should count a just occasion to despise him for, or to think any way the more meanly of him."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #20

"Resolved, to maintain the strictest temperance, in eating and drinking."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #19

"Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if I expected it would not be above an hour, before I should hear the last trump."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #18

"Resolved, to live so, at all times, as I think is best in my devout frames, and when I have clearest notions of things of the gospel, and another world."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #17

"Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #16

"Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #15

"Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger towards irrational beings."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #14

"Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #13

"Resolved, to be endeavoring to find out fit objects of charity and liberality."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #12

"Resolved, if I take delight in it as a gratification of pride, or vanity, or any such account, immediately to throw it by."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #11

"Resolved, when I think of any theorem in divinity to be solved, immediately to do what I can towards solving it, if circumstances do not hinder."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #10

"Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #9

"Resolved, to think much on all occasion of my own dying, and of the common circumstances which attend death."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #8

"Resolved, to act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings as others; and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #7

"Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #6

"Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #5

"Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can."

- Jonathan Edwards

Resolution #4

"Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it."

- Jonathan Edwards