This entry follows closely with a passage in Edwards’s essay “On Being.”
27a. GOD

is a necessary being, because it’s a contradiction to suppose him not to be. No being is a necessary being but he whose nonentity is a contradiction. We have shown that absolute nothing is the essence of all contradictions; but being includes in [...]

130. PELAGIANISM.

That there should be an immediate operation of God’s Spirit upon the hearts of the godly, to beget and exercise grace, seems much the most reasonable to me. For seeing man is made for such an end that his business is wholly with God, seeing he is made for nothing but to pay respects [...]

a rare, fascinating glimpse into Edwards’s thoughts on music.
188. HEAVEN.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other, is by music. When I would form in my mind an idea of a society in the highest degree happy, I think of them as [...]

793. JUSTIFICATION. REWARDS.
Believers may be heirs of eternal life prior to their good works. They may have a right by Christ’s righteousness received by faith that may be prior to any regard to anything in them as a good work, or any virtue or lovely qualification in them; and yet [it] may be the pleasure [...]

Yale Press recently published three of the Works of Jonathan Edwards volumes in paperback. This is a very welcome move in that it makes some of the more important volumes in the series much more affordable. Over the years, many have complained about the steep price of the hardback editions, most of which [...]