Josh Moody on the Intimate World of Jonathan Edwards
February 5, 2008
Josh Moody, in his book, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today
Page 162-163.
Several personal writings of Jonathan Edwards pull back the curtain a little on this intimate world of the Edwards household. When Jonathan was still single, he wrote this love poem to Sarah, penned about 1723 (they married in 1727). Note how his clear affection for her is threaded through with an admiration for her spiritual qualities:
They say there is a young lady in [New Haven] who is beloved of that almighty Being, who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything, except to meditate on him — that she expects after a while to be received up where he is, to be raised out of the world and caught up into heaven; being assured that he loves her too well to let her remain at a distance from him always. There she is to dwell with him, and be lavished with his love and delight always … A Jonathan Edwards Reader
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