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The “Miscellanies”: (Entry Nos. 1153–1360) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout his ministerial career, Jonathan Edwards filled a series of private notebooks on a wide variety of theological topics, numbering his entries—nearly 1,400 of them—in sequence. With the publication of this, the fourth and final volume of miscellanies, readers have access for the first time to the most comprehensive printed edition of Edwards’ “Miscellanies,” the most controversial and...

there as an expression of trusting in God, as is manifest by Prov. 22:17–20. “Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou KEEP them within thee; they shall be withal fitted in thy lips. THAT THY TRUST MAY BE IN THE LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. Have I not written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge?” From this place, by the way, I would observe that the phrase “KEEPING GOD’S
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