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This book presents previously unpublished manuscript sermons from a crucial yet little-known period in Edwards’ life: the years between the completion of his Master’s degree at Yale College and the death of Solomon Stoddard, his famous grandfather and predecessor at Northampton, Massachusetts. These sermons, constituting the second in a projected series of six sermon volumes, highlight the...

2. The second difference between this spiritual knowledge of divine things, and other knowledge, as to their effects, is that the one purifies the life, the other doth not. This spiritual knowledge is a practical knowledge, that which is accompanied with practice of what is known. Those that spiritually know Christ, they keep his commandments. 1 John 2:3, “Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his comandments.” But it is not so with respect to that knowledge that the natural man hath, although,
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