No wonder that what is divine is powerful and effectual, for it has omnipotence on it's side. If God dwells in the heart, and is vitally connected to it, He will show that He is God by the efficacy of His operations. Christ is not in the heart of the saint as in a tomb, as a dead saviour that does nothing, but as one in a temple, who is alive from the dead. For in the heart where Christ savingly is, there He exerts Himself after the power of His endless life that He received at His resurrection. Thus every saint who is the subject of the benefit of Christ's sufferings is made to know and experience the power of His resurrection. The Spirit of Christ, which is the immediate spring of life in the heart is all life, all power to act, 2 Corinthians 2:4, 'in the demonstration of Spirit and all power.'... and thus it is that holy affection have a governing power in man's life.
Jonathan Edwards, The Religions Affections
In The Complete Works, Volume 1
P317
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