This particular line from Jonathan Edward’s, The Treatise of Religious Affections, is written on the end of page twenty-three. Jonathan Edwards, revivalist preacher, philosopher, and congregational protestant theologian. Born in 1703, and passing in 1758, therefore present for the Great Awakening. Which was a biblical movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, especially the American colonies, in the 1730s and 1740s, that left a substantial effect on American Protestantism. This uprising gave Edwards the time to start on his legendary works. Jonathan Edwards was by no means a senseless man. He was accepted into Yale College just under the age of thirteen. In his quote, he is elucidating how loving a particular thing causes
