Praise God—Sunday is almost here! We get to go back to church again! One of my favorite old dead (but really living) friends, is the great Jonathan Ed-wards. The words (below), come from p. 286, of George Marsden’s excellent biography of Edwards. . . .
“Even individuals, then, could not rely simply on looking within to their own intense spiritual experiences, however luminous. As he had in A Divine and Supernatural Light, Edwards described the ‘spiritual sense’ that he associated with his ‘First Sign’ of genuine affections. This sense, which was a but ‘a new foundation laid in the nature of the soul’ for the exercise of the existing facul-ties.
"Regeneration, in other words, changed the whole person by changing the love of the heart of the person’s being. The resulting spiritual sense was won-derfully different from anything previously experienced."
