- If you have a copy of the book,
skim Part III, "Showing What Are Distinguishing Signs of Truly Gracious
and Holy Affections", looking for the twelve distinguishing signs
given by Edwards.
- Identify the author of the following excerpt, and the book from which
the excerpt was taken:
"I have always loved butterflies. In Uganda I saw glorious butterflies the
colour of whose wings changed from the deepest russet brown to the most
brilliant blue, according to the angle from which you saw them. In Brazil as
everyone knows there are butterflies of this kind even larger and more
vivid. The contrast is extreme. You could not conceive colour effects more
violently opposed; but it is the same butterfly. The butterfly is the
Fact—gleaming, fluttering, settling for an instant with wings fully spread to
the sun, then vanishing in the shades of the forest. Whether you believe in
Free Will or Predestination, all depends on the slanting glimpse you had of
the colour of his wings—which are in fact at least two colors at the same
time."
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