12 true signs of gracious affections

Resulting from true and genuine conversions:


# A new birth, or regeneration




# A new transcendental perspective in daily life that focuses on God’s glory.




# A love for the loveliness of divine things.




# A "new taste" that combines "heat with light"; understanding is essential but insufficient by itself.




# A deep conviction of an immediate sense of divinity and total control of self by the truths of the gospel.




# An evangelical rather than legal illumination.



A radical change of nature that results in conversion.




# A genuine love for and meekness towards others.




# A Christian tenderness towards others.




# A kind of symmetry or proportion of all the foregoing affections.




# A desire for a growing relationship with God.




# A gracious love that manifests itself in behaviour. [Jonathan Edwards]