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The “Miscellanies”: (Entry Nos. 501–832) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout his ministerial career, Jonathan Edwards filled a series of private notebooks with writings on a wide variety of theological topics, numbering his entries—some 1,400 of them—in sequence. This book, the second of four volumes devoted to these “Miscellanies,” contains entries written during the decade of the 1730s, from July 1731 to approximately January 1740, the eve of the Great...

pleasant food the sweetness of which they are sensible of, or have an idea of, though they as yet receive no benefit of it, and don’t know that ever they shall: yet they love it because they conceive of it as in itself tending to their pleasure, if there were opportunity and due application; so they conceive of those mentioned virtues as in like manner, in their own nature, tending to their good. Self-love makes them love the quality in general in one case, as in the other. A natural [man] may love
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