# “Humility” by Jonathan Edwards

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- Published: 2011-09-20T16:00:16-05:00
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“Let all be exhorted earnestly to seek much of a humble spirit, and to endeavor 
to be humble in all their behavior toward God and men. Seek for a deep and abiding
sense of your comparative meanness before God and man.

Know God. Confess your nothingness and ill-desert before Him. Distrust yourself.
Rely only on God. Renounce all glory except from Him. Yield yourself heartily to
His will and service.

Avoid an aspiring, ambitious, ostentatious, assuming, arrogant, scornful, stubborn,
wilful, levelling, self-justifying behaviour. And strive for more and more of the
humble spirit that Christ manifested while He was on earth.

Consider the many motives to such a spirit. Humility is the most essential and distinguishing
trait of all true piety. It is the attendant of every grace, and in a peculiar manner
tends to the purity of Christian feeling. It is the ornament of the spirit.

It is the source of some of the sweetest exercises of Christian experience. It is
the most acceptable sacrifice we can offer to God. It is the subject of the richest
of His promises. It is the spirit with which He will dwell on earth, and which He
will crown with glory in heaven hereafter.

Earnestly, then, and diligently and prayerfully cherish, a humble spirit, and God
shall walk with you here below. And when a few more days shall have passed, He will
receive you to the honours bestowed on His people at Christ’s right hand.”

–Jonathan Edwards, _[Charity and Its Fruits](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513972?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1852/2000), 155-156.

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