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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...

the words as he understood them; though it might be mitigated, so as to be more gentle than he feared, in not being with that wrath, and being followed by a resurrection. And so far as they were not understood by Adam, God is obliged by them only according to their proper and fair construction. Adam had a distinct notion of this, that the frame of his body was to be destroyed; but had no distinct notion about the doleful state of the soul the dissolution of the body was to usher in. See Nos. 1083,
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