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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

John Newton on Jonthan Edwards

‘Edwards on Free Will,’ I have read with pleasure, as a good answer to proud reasoners in their own way; but a book of that sort cannot be generally read: where the subject matter is unpleasing, and the method of treating it requires more attention than the Athenian spirit of the times would bear, I wonder not if it is uncalled for.

John Newton
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