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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...

Therefore, I think it exceeding probable that, as on the ascent of the sun in the spring the face of the earth, being clothed with an animated garment, is changed and made new by the influence and impression the sun makes upon it, and in some respect every morning when the sun rises the sun gives all a new form by its impression, as a seal on the clay—Job 38:12–14, “Hast thou commanded the morning … that it might take hold on the ends of the earth …? It is turned as the clay to the seal; and they
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