# “The new song is learned out of the gospel” by Jonathan Edwards

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“No man can learn the new song but they that are redeemed. Other men are dumb and
dead as to any such heavenly exercise as this. They can exalt their idols, but they
can’t exalt God. They can rejoice in the objects of their lusts, in their worldliness
and in their carnal pleasures, but they can’t rejoice in Christ Jesus. They can 
howl, but they can’t sing the new song. This song, whenever it is learnt, must be
learned out of the gospel. But none can truly understand the gospel of Jesus Christ
but His redeemed ones.”

–Jonathan Edwards, [“They Sing a New Song,”](http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWFsZS5lZHUvY2dpLWJpbi9uZXdwaGlsby9nZXRvYmplY3QucGw/Yy4yMToyOS53amVv)
_Sermons and Discourses: 1739-1742_, in_ The Works of Jonathan Edwards_, Vol. 22,
Ed. Harry S. Stout (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 236-237.

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