# “The sermons of Jonathan Edwards” by Hughes Oliphant Old

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- Published: 2016-12-22T15:30:53-06:00
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“What was distinct about the religious life of New England? It was a passion for
God. Call it a delight in God; call it conversion; call it charity; call it religious
affection; it all amounted to the same thing, a passionate love for God.

When all is said about the sermons of Jonathan Edwards, they have a sacred passion
about them.

His sermons are intellectually brilliant, morally perceptive, theologically challenging–
all of this, to be sure — but above all they have a passionate holiness about them
which brings us to delight in God.

For Edwards, it was this delighting in God which was worship.”

–Hughes Oliphant Old, [_The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church: Moderatism, Pietism, and Awakening, Volume 5_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802822320?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), 5: 293.

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