“[I wish] to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child.” At age 14, Jonathan Edwards, already a student at Yale, read philosopher John Locke with more delight “than the most greedy miser finds when gathering up handfuls of silver and gold, from some newly discovered treasure.” He also was a young man with profound spiritual sensitivities. At age 17,