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Edwards's object in this book is to distinguish between true and false religion by showing the marks of a saving work of the Holy Spirit in men. In his preface, Edwards stresses the importance of using “our utmost endeavors clearly to discern…wherein true religion does consist.” For “till this be done, it may be expected that great reviving of religion will be but short continuance.”

Author

Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals.