One pilgrim good with the crumbs was Jonathan Edwards. The man chased the sunbeams of God’s radiance like almost nobody else, always pointing us to the source of that radiance as the fulfillment and summation of the little fires we see now only dimly. The soul that in this world had only a little spark of divine love in it, in heaven shall be, as it were, turned into a bright and ardent flame, like the sun in its fullest brightness, when it has no spot upon it.2 Edwards began his career as a lawyer, and even as a pastor and theologian he had an academic, scholarly tenor to his analysis of
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