Contrast the boy in my last post with Jonathan Edwards. Here are just a few of his many resolutions:
1. Resolved, to endeavor to my utmost to act as I think I should do if I had
already seen the happiness of heaven, and hell torments.
2. Resolved, never hence foreword till I die to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and all together God’s.
3. Resolved, to study the scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly preserve myself to grown in the knowledge of the same.
4. 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.
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And Jonathan Edwards was only 19 when he wrote those resolutions, wasn't he?
I'm not sure. but that would further my point now wouldn't it ;)
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