The Religious Affections
by Jonathan Edwards

An adult Sunday School class at
Calvary Reformed Presbyterian Church
March-May 2001
led by C. Michael Holloway
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(watch out for paraphrases)

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Homework to Prepare for Class 9
and Special Challenge Problem (continued)

  1. If you have a copy of the book, read the sixth sign mentioned in Part III, "Showing What Are Distinguishing Signs of Truly Gracious and Holy Affections". This is the section about "evangelical humiliation."
  2. The author of the following excerpt has been correctly identified by several people (Sir Winston S. Churchill), but the book from which it was taken has not been.

    "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."


Curator: C. Michael Holloway (holloway@logicteacher.com)
last modified: 22 April 2001 (11:33:20)