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But again, consider the reasons, why God should govern the universe. Perhaps, in words, or in theory, you have never denied his right to govern, yet in practice you have always denied it. Your having never obeyed, is the strongest possible declaration of your denial of his right to govern you...

Again, no thanks to you, if all mankind are not forever lost. You have done nothing to save them. Your whole life has had a natural tendency to destroy them. Your neglect and contempt of God have exerted the strongest influence within your power to lead them in the way to death. You have done...

First. Fix your mind upon the unreasonableness and hatefulness of selfishness. Selfishness is the pursuit of one's own happiness as a supreme good; this is in itself inconsistent with the glory of God, and the highest happiness of his kingdom. You must be sensible that you have always directly...

The Bible never appeals to selfishness. It often addresses self-love, or the hopes and fears of men; because self-love, or a constitutional love of happiness, or dread of misery, is not in itself sinful. By thus appealing to the hopes, fears, and conscience, the mind, even of selfish beings, is...

So faith may exist, simply as a settled conviction, or persuasion of mind, of the truths of revelation, and will have greater or less influence according to the strength and permanency of this persuasion. It is not evangelical faith, however, unless this persuasion be accompanied with the...

Voluntariness is indispensable to moral character; it is the universal and irresistible conviction of men, that an action, to be praise or blame-worthy, must be free. If, in passing through the streets, you should see a tile fall from a building upon which men were at work, and kill a man, and...

I come now to a fourth inquiry, to which the discussion of the above named topics naturally leads, viz. How shall I perform this duty, and change my own heart? This is an inquiry often made by anxious sinners, when they are commanded to change their hearts, and convinced that it is their duty to...

SERMON II HOW TO CHANGE YOUR HEART [by Charles G. Finney] EZEKIEL xviii. 31.--Make you a new heart, and a new spirit, for why will ye die? In the former discourse upon this text, I discussed three points, viz: 1. The meaning of the command in the text. 2. Its reasonableness. 3. Its...

The entire 2nd Great Awakening was practically attributed to his life. This shows where you are located doctrinally... ...in opposition to revival! Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Nope, I gave credit to Finney. And I didn't type out the words myself, but copied and pasted them from the website.

The above (to #667) based on Eze 18:31, Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

2. The second inquiry is, whether the requirement of the text is reasonable and equitable. The answer to this question must depend upon the nature of the duty to be performed. If the change be a physical one, a change in the constitution or substance of the soul, it is clearly not within the...

Suppose a human sovereign should establish a government, and propose as the great end of pursuit, to produce the greatest amount of happiness possible within his kingdom. He enacts wise and benevolent laws, calculated to promote this object to which he conforms all his own conduct; in the...

Thus the world is divided into two great political parties; the difference between them is, that one party choose Satan as the god of this world, yield obedience to his laws, and are devoted to his interest. Selfishness is the law of Satan's empire, and all impenitent sinners yield it a willing...

But I come now to show what we are to understand by the command of the text. The Bible often speaks of the heart, as a fountain, from which flow the moral affections and actions of the soul, as in Matt. xv.19, "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts...

Again--a constitutional alteration, and the implantation of a new principle in the substance of his soul, or diffusing a new taste which is incorporated with, and becomes an essential part of his being, would destroy all the virtue of his obedience. It would make obedience to God a mere...

previous to #645... Sinners bound to change their own hearts. [by Charles G. Finney] Ezek xviii. 31. MAKE YOU A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT, FOR WHY WILL YE DIE? These words were addressed to the house of Israel, who from their history and from the verses in connection with the text, were...

17th. From this subject you may see the importance of pressing every argument, and every consideration, that can have any weight. And now, sinner, while the subject is before you, will you yield? To keep yourself away from under the motives of the gospel, by neglecting church, and neglecting...

The importance of rightly understanding that God converts souls by motives, is inconceivably great. Those who do not recognize this truth in their practice at least, are more likely to hinder than to aid the Spirit in his work. Some have denied this truth in theory, but have happily admitted it...

15th. You see it is most reasonable to expect sinners, if they are converted at all, to be converted under the voice of the living preacher, or while the truth is held up in all its blaze before the mind. An idea has prevailed in the church, that sinners must have a season of protracted...