Healing Wounds and a New Podcast

No. 381

Announcing a new podcast:

Theology and the Art of Temptation

Doctor Freefall and his apprentice Slidefoot discuss how to twist theological truths in order to tempt and manipulate their subjects. Their expertise lies in Jonathan Edwards and spiritual awakening. “Their foot shall slide in due time.”—Deut. 32:35

Listen to the first episode here:

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Bad wounds must be searched to the bottom; and oftentimes when they are very deep they must be lanced, and the core laid open, though it be very painful to endure, before they can have a good cure. The surgeon may skin them over, so that it may look like a cure without this, without much hurting the patient, but it will not do the patient much good. He does but deceive him for the present, but it will be no lasting benefit to him; the sore will break out again. This figures forth to us the case of our spiritual wound. The plague of our hearts, which is great and deep and must be searched, must be lanced by painful conviction. The core must be laid open. We must be made to see that fountain of sin and corruption there is, and what a dreadful state we are in by nature, in order to a thorough and saving cure. Jeremiah 8:11, speaking of the teachers of Israel, their prophets and priests, “They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, peace, peace, when there is no peace.” A child is not brought forth by the mother without grievous pain. This is a type of the pains and inward distress that there is in the soul before it becomes the spiritual mother of Christ. - Jonathan Edwards, WJE 18:161–62

CORPUS NOTECARDS

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TERMS & REFERENCES

Term Set A: wound wounds

Term Set B: cure lance heal spiritual

Max Distance Between Terms = 6

Reference List A/B

2:212 - Religious Affections (WJEO 2)
4:301 - The Great Awakening (WJEO 4)
4:394 - The Great Awakening (WJEO 4)
4:425 - The Great Awakening (WJEO 4)
9:411 - A History of the Work of Redemption (WJEO 9)
10:568 - Sermons and Discourses 1720-1723 (WJEO 10)
11:60 - Typological Writings (WJEO 11)
11:141 - Typological Writings (WJEO 11)
18:56 - The Miscellanies, (Entry Nos. 501-832) (WJEO 18)
18:177 - The Miscellanies, (Entry Nos. 501-832) (WJEO 18)
30:1 - Prophecies of the Messiah (WJEO 30)
41:1 - Family Writings and Related Documents (WJEO 41)
46:21 - Sermons, Series II, 1731-1732 (WJEO 46)
47:39 - Sermons, Series II, 1731-1732 (WJEO 47)
48:14 - Sermons, Series II, 1733 (WJEO 48)
48:15 - Sermons, Series II, 1733 (WJEO 48)
48:31 - Sermons, Series II, 1733 (WJEO 48)
53:7 - Sermons, Series II, 1738, and Undated, 1734-1738 (WJEO 53)
54:3 - Sermons, Series II, 1739 (WJEO 54)
56:12 - Sermons, Series II, July-December 1740 (WJEO 56)
57:4 - Sermons, Series II, January-June 1741 (WJEO 57)
64:9 - Sermons, Series II, 1746 (WJEO 64)

Reference List B/A

2:488 - Religious Affections (WJEO 2)
12:156 - Ecclesiastical Writings (WJEO 12)
13:321 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
15:540 - Notes on Scripture (WJEO 15)
15:546 - Notes on Scripture (WJEO 15)
16:234 - Letters and Personal Writings (WJEO 16)
17:143 - Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733 (WJEO 17)
17:457 - Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733 (WJEO 17)
18:161 - The Miscellanies, (Entry Nos. 501-832) (WJEO 18)
19:271 - Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738 (WJEO 19)
22:56 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 (WJEO 22)
22:292 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 (WJEO 22)
22:293 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 (WJEO 22)
22:309 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 (WJEO 22)
22:318 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 (WJEO 22)
24:539 - The Blank Bible (WJEO 24)
24:765 - The Blank Bible (WJEO 24)
25:186 - Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758 (WJEO 25)
32:94 - Correspondence by, to, and about Edwards and His Family (WJEO 32)
43:10 - Sermons, Series II, 1728-1729 (WJEO 43)
45:13 - Sermons, Series II, 1729-1731 (WJEO 45)
46:29 - Sermons, Series II, 1731-1732 (WJEO 46)
48:31 - Sermons, Series II, 1733 (WJEO 48)
50:1 - Sermons, Series II, 1735 (WJEO 50)
52:2 - Sermons, Series II, 1737 (WJEO 52)
52:21 - Sermons, Series II, 1737 (WJEO 52)
54:10 - Sermons, Series II, 1739 (WJEO 54)
55:8 - Sermons, Series II, January-June 1740 (WJEO 55)
56:21 - Sermons, Series II, July-December 1740 (WJEO 56)
57:4 - Sermons, Series II, January-June 1741 (WJEO 57)
64:9 - Sermons, Series II, 1746 (WJEO 64)
66:13 - Sermons, Series II, 1748 (WJEO 66)