In light of recent dust-ups in the Evangelical world regarding the creation vs. evolution debate (a summation of the latest episode can be found here), I was reminded of this Miscellany entry. It is one of Edwards’s last Miscellany entries and gives particular insight into what the Creation conversation looked like in the mid to [...]

Yesterday, as I’m sure you’re aware, was Easter Sunday, one of the most important days in the Christian calendar. To mark this event, this week’s Miscellany Mondays entry focuses on resurrection. Here Edwards poses a question asking how Christ’s resurrection affects the bodies of believers and their own eventual resurrection, given the union that is [...]

With just a few days left until Christmas, it’s always good to take time to remember the true meaning of the holiday. In this week’s installment of Miscellany Mondays, we have a brief, yet profound, statement on the meaning and purpose of the incarnation of Christ. The idea of Christ’s communion with his church, and [...]

This week brings one of Edwards’s earliest entries in the miscellanies project. It is a beautiful contemplation of the benefits a Christian gains in his being united to Christ by faith, a union which purchases all things for the believer. This is an early glimpse into the poetic timbre that many of Edwards’s later writings, [...]

When preached in August of 1733, Edwards’s sermon on Matthew 16:17, later published as A Divine and Supernatural Light, did not include the following passage. When published in 1734, however, “Miscellany 489″ was included in the first part of the doctrine section of the sermon. The ideas found in this entry are central to that [...]

Ok, so it’s not really Monday.  As I said in the previous post, yesterday this site was migrated to a new domain and that delayed the posting of Miscellany Mondays on Monday.  So this week Miscellany Mondays is on Tuesday.  You can thank me later for blowing your mind. This week’s selection is from roughly [...]

943. Justification. Faith. Repentance. Repentance is often spoken [of] as the special condition of remission of sins. But yet ’tis evident by the Scripture that remission of sins is by faith in Jesus Christ, and that this is the special condition of remission of sins, by which we become entitled to this great privilege; [as [...]