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This volume contains two major manuscript notebooks of Jonathan Edwards—“Natural Philosophy” and “The Mind”—as well as a number of shorter manuscript writings connected with his scientific interests and philosophical development. Several of the shorter papers have not previously been published, notably Edwards’ letter on the “flying” spider (hither known only in a draft version), an essay on...

immediately adjacent, and so on to the next, etc.) is from the immediate exercise of divine power so communicating that resistance, according to certain conditions which we call the laws of motion. How truly then is it in him that we live, move and have our being. Corol. 13. From all which, we find that what divines used to say concerning divine concourse had a great deal of truth lay at the bottom of it. Corol. 14. We by this also clearly see that creation of the corporeal universe is nothing but
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