Jonathan Edwards

To begin with Edwards cited a scripture and then explicated it and the implications of it on the disciples. Then he continued with how it was relevant to all believers in his section on doctrine. The rest of this piece seems to deal with proving how there are two types of wisdom/knowledge; a natural wisdom that even unbelievers can know or feel and a spiritual knowledge that is imparted directly from God. He calls this the divine light.
He then proceeds to state what divine light is and is not. Just having a guilty conscience does not mean you have learned something from God any man can have that. Secondly, being is not just a feeling it’s a true sense or knowledge that without a doubt this is true and it feels true too. Thirdly, it is not some new idea or thought it is something that comes from the bible and is just brought to understanding by God.
Finally, He tries to show how it comes straight from God and not by man. First of all the source of the divine light must be from the bible. No natural thing can produce it. And there should be joy found in the knowledge of the truth and there should be a change of heart.
I found this piece to be rather dry and wordy and ineffective in explaining the complexities of “the divine light”. For even his base scripture was not directly related to the topic and could have been interpreted to mean something different if not at least more specific than what Jonathan Edwards tries to argue. Most of the ideas were his and he only used scripture in one part of the argument. In the end I found it to be boring and even a little snobbish that somehow he was the one to know what came from God.