to Jesus Christ. He wrote that, while he was contemplating 1 Timothy 1:17, “There came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different from anything I ever experienced before.”26 His heart immediately was overjoyed with rapturous thoughts of God. Edwards would later write: I began to have a new kind of apprehensions and ideas of Christ, and the work of redemption, and the glorious ways of salvation by Him. An inward, sweet
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