# “Follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of His hand” by Jonathan Edwards

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- Published: 2018-07-26T12:00:03-05:00
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“In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless
child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds 
on His hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding
your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of His righteousness.”

–Jonathan Edwards, [_Letters and Personal Writings_](https://amzn.to/2LJWZng) (ed.
George S. Claghorn and Harry S. Stout; vol. 16; [_The Works of Jonathan Edwards_](https://amzn.to/2LJWZng);
New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1998), 16: 90–91. Edwards wrote this advice
to Deborah Hatheway, an eighteen-year-old new convert to Christ who was without 
a pastor, in a letter of counsel on June 3, 1741.

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