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Practical Atheism, by Jonathan Edwards.
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Practical Atheism, by Jonathan Edwards.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
~ Psalm 73:3
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
~ Psalm 92:6
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
~ Psalm 107:17
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
~ Proverbs 1:7
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
~ Psalm 10:4
To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
~ Psalm 52:1-6
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
~ Romans 1:28
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
~ Ephesians 2:12
He who has infinite wisdom, who sits in heaven and from thence perfectly beholds all things as they are and knows better than any other what is wisdom and what is folly, has in his Holy Word stigmatized the wicked as the greatest fools. So that we find 'em there called fools, as though they were so in the most eminent manner. And so wisdom is used for holiness commonly in the Scriptures, as if the word were synonymous or exactly of the same signification.
The wicked are called fools in this verse:
1. As a general appellation that belonged to them, as they are called elsewhere; Psalms 107:17, "fools because of their transgressions"; and Proverbs 13:19, "it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil"; and Proverbs 13:20, "a companion of fools shall be destroyed"; and in many other places.
2. With a particular eye to that part of their folly here mentioned, viz. that they say in their hearts, "There is no God." This is a chief influence of the strong stupidity and sottishness of their minds.
Some do suppose that by the expression of "saying in their hearts, There is no God," is meant chiefly in their inclination. But by "heart" in the Scriptures is often very commonly meant the whole soul, including all the faculties. Thus we read of pondering things in the heart, by which is principally intended the act of the understanding. And it seems here to be meant of the whole soul. As sin has dominion over the whole soul, so atheism is what taints all the faculties.
Doctrine.
A principle of atheism possesses the hearts of all ungodly men.
By atheism is commonly meant the disbelieving or denying the being of a God, as extending no further than to the act of the understanding.
But by the word "atheism" in the doctrine, I would be understood in a sense something more extensive: for any kind of rejecting, renouncing, or opposing the divine existence or the being of a God with whatever faculty. Which sense we suppose to be parallel with the expression in the text of "saying in the heart, there is no God." And accordingly we shall show,
I. That there is an atheistical inclination.
II. There is a principle of speculative atheism or atheism of judgment in every ungodly man.
III. They have a disposition practically to deny God or to live as if there were no God.
I. There is an atheistical inclination that possesses the heart of every ungodly man; i.e. they have such an inclination and nature that it would suit them if there were no God. They have nothing in them that makes them incline that there should be a God, but they could be glad if there were none. It would mightily suit and please them if they could be assured that there was none.
There is such a spirit of enmity in their hearts against God; everything that is in God is disagreeable to 'em. Their natures are entirely contrary to the nature of God. In the first place they hate the holiness of God. And then they hate all the other attributes because his holiness does, as it were, influence and actuate all his other attributes, as his power, wisdom, and mercy.
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
~ Psalm 73:3
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
~ Psalm 92:6
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
~ Psalm 107:17
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
~ Proverbs 1:7
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
~ Psalm 10:4
To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
~ Psalm 52:1-6
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
~ Romans 1:28
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
~ Ephesians 2:12
He who has infinite wisdom, who sits in heaven and from thence perfectly beholds all things as they are and knows better than any other what is wisdom and what is folly, has in his Holy Word stigmatized the wicked as the greatest fools. So that we find 'em there called fools, as though they were so in the most eminent manner. And so wisdom is used for holiness commonly in the Scriptures, as if the word were synonymous or exactly of the same signification.
The wicked are called fools in this verse:
1. As a general appellation that belonged to them, as they are called elsewhere; Psalms 107:17, "fools because of their transgressions"; and Proverbs 13:19, "it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil"; and Proverbs 13:20, "a companion of fools shall be destroyed"; and in many other places.
2. With a particular eye to that part of their folly here mentioned, viz. that they say in their hearts, "There is no God." This is a chief influence of the strong stupidity and sottishness of their minds.
Some do suppose that by the expression of "saying in their hearts, There is no God," is meant chiefly in their inclination. But by "heart" in the Scriptures is often very commonly meant the whole soul, including all the faculties. Thus we read of pondering things in the heart, by which is principally intended the act of the understanding. And it seems here to be meant of the whole soul. As sin has dominion over the whole soul, so atheism is what taints all the faculties.
Doctrine.
A principle of atheism possesses the hearts of all ungodly men.
By atheism is commonly meant the disbelieving or denying the being of a God, as extending no further than to the act of the understanding.
But by the word "atheism" in the doctrine, I would be understood in a sense something more extensive: for any kind of rejecting, renouncing, or opposing the divine existence or the being of a God with whatever faculty. Which sense we suppose to be parallel with the expression in the text of "saying in the heart, there is no God." And accordingly we shall show,
I. That there is an atheistical inclination.
II. There is a principle of speculative atheism or atheism of judgment in every ungodly man.
III. They have a disposition practically to deny God or to live as if there were no God.
I. There is an atheistical inclination that possesses the heart of every ungodly man; i.e. they have such an inclination and nature that it would suit them if there were no God. They have nothing in them that makes them incline that there should be a God, but they could be glad if there were none. It would mightily suit and please them if they could be assured that there was none.
There is such a spirit of enmity in their hearts against God; everything that is in God is disagreeable to 'em. Their natures are entirely contrary to the nature of God. In the first place they hate the holiness of God. And then they hate all the other attributes because his holiness does, as it were, influence and actuate all his other attributes, as his power, wisdom, and mercy.
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