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The third volume contains a series of Edwards’ sermons on Jesus’ parable of the Net, as found in Matthew 13. Edwards preached these sermons in 1746, after the major phase of the Great Awakening had passed in New England. During these months Edwards was completing and publishing A Treatise concerning Religious Affections, his masterful statement on the signs of true grace. This volume is...

As the taking fish in a net is owing to the fisherman’s art1—men are wont to exercise their cunning and display their art in catching of birds and fishes and other animals that are wild—so the bringing souls out of a state of nature home to the Lord Jesus Christ is an effect of the wonderful wisdom of God. This is the wisdom spoken of, Prov. 8:12, “[I] dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.” The wisdom of God wonderfully appears in what he has done, whereby a foundation
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