Very Fundamental book that is a decent introduction to those interested in Studying his life, his Intellectual gifts and his singular purpose of life to live "Coram Dee" and "Soli Den Gloria"

Very interesting book by an early American religious thinker. "The immense magnificence of the visible world in inconceivable vastness, the incomprehensible height of the heavens, etc., is but a type of the infinite magnificence, height and glory of God's work in the spiritual world."

"That mixture we call white is a proportionate mixture that is harmonious, as Sir Isaac Newton has shown, to each particular simple colour, and contains in some harmony or other that is delightfull. And each sort of rays play a distinct tune to the soul, besides those lovely mixtures that are found in nature. Those beauties, how lovely is the green of the face of the earth in all manner of colours, in flowers, the colour of the skies, and lovely tinctures of the morning and evening." An 18th century New England minister foreshadowing the natural pietism of Thoreau... ( )

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