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This book begins the publication of Jonathan Edwards’ personal theological notebooks, called collectively the “Miscellanies.” The entries in Volume 13 span the early years of Edwards’ ministry (1722–1731) and range widely in subject matter. They record Edwards’ initial thoughts on some of his most characteristic ideas, such as original sin, free will, the Trinity and God’s end in creation....

.1 Holiness is a most beautiful and lovely thing. We drink in strange notions2 of holiness from our childhood, as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour3 and unpleasant thing; but there is nothing in it but what is sweet and ravishingly lovely. ’Tis the highest beauty and amiableness, vastly above all other beauties. ’Tis a divine beauty, makes the soul heavenly and far purer than anything here on earth; this world is like mire and filth
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