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That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

Jonathan Edwards
Perfect, Mind, Void
Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.706

The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

Jonathan Edwards
Christian, Sweet, Spring
Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

Jonathan Edwards
Lying, Influence, Creation

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

Jonathan Edwards
Giving, Matter, Lasts
Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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