devil makes “sport with a wicked” sinner. As a cat lets a mouse think it is free while in reality the cat is in total control, so the devil fools sinners into thinking that they are free and properly religious while all the time the devil is in control until he finally devours them. In this way, by reading nature in biblical terms, Edwards deemed that “the Book of Scripture is the interpreter of the book of nature.” Everything in nature has spiritual meaning; everything communicates something of