Edwards describes this new sense as a child’s intuition of family membership: “The child of God doth as it were see and feel the truth of divine things even intuitively … ’tis the knowledge that none have but the children of God, and the knowledge that makes those who have it his children” (WJE 14:78). In “Miscellanies” no. 686, Edwards observes that believers experience but do not generate this awareness: “He that has such a strong exercise of a divine and holy love to God, he knows at the same