This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...carefully and constantly what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt of the love of God, and to direct all my forces against it," 3--it is not in any one of these bold sentences, but in the spirit shining through all of them, that we discover the true nature of the man. Occasionally--very rarely ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...carefully and constantly what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt of the love of God, and to direct all my forces against it," 3--it is not in any one of these bold sentences, but in the spirit shining through all of them, that we discover the true nature of the man. Occasionally--very rarely--some puerility 1 See Prof. Tyler's admirable sketch of Edwards, Hist. Am. Lit., ii. 177. 3 Tyler, Hist. Am. Lit., ii. 183. s Edwards's Works, i. 68, 69. of the seventeenth century exegesis crops out, as, " I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning by his rising from the grave very early." 1 We should consider the littleness of the literature that went before him, in estimating the greatness of his ascent out of it into a higher and purer realm. Of feeble body and delicate health, Edwards kept at work by rigid temperance. He worked with unflinching industry, spending about thirteen hours a day in his study. He was a very productive writer, and economised his mental force in every possible way. As I have mentioned, he read pen in hand, not merely to acquire knowledge, but to create new thought out of his own teeming mind. So, as he rode out for recreation, he pinned a bit of paper on his coat to mark a line of thought, and another and another; when at home again, he recorded the results, following these tags of his memory. In the evening he took genuine recreation in cheerful converse with his family, rising between four and five in the morning for work in his study. Shortly after his settlement at Northampton, he married Sarah Pierrepont, descended like himself from the best clerical stock. It was a very happy union, and their children numbered eleven. She was an accomplished woman and a most capable wife. She c...
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