[Jonathan] Edwards bases this distinction on the difference between two ways of knowing. On the one hand, there is knowledge that is merely speculative, notional, a mere cognitive awareness of some truth. On the other hand, there is what Edwards calls “the sense of the heart” in which one recognizes the beauty or amiableness or sweetness of that truth and feels pleasure and delight in it. It is the difference between knowing or believing that God is holy and having a “sense” of or enjoying His holiness. “There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.” Thus “when the heart is sensible of the beauty and amiableness of a thing, it necessarily feels pleasure in the apprehension.”

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Grains		Sainsbury’s, Sainsbury7	8	servings

INGREDIENTS

125	ml	Double cream; (4 fl oz)
		A few saffron strands; soaked for a few
		; minutes
125	g	Butter; (4oz)
750	g	Carrots; grated (1 1/2lb)
50	g	Sugar; (2oz)
4	tb	Raisins
		Seeds from 4 cardamom pods
3	tb	Slivered almonds
1	tb	Rose-water
		Double cream; to serve (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

Put 2 tablespoons of the cream in a small bowl and gently stir in the
saffron, then gradually mix in the rest of the cream. The cream will
take on the colour of the saffron (golden yellow). Do not beat the
mixture.
Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan over a low heat, add the grated
carrots, and stir to coat well.
Stir in the sugar, raisins and cardamom seeds. Blend in the saffron
and cream mixture, and the almonds.
Sprinkle in the rose-water, and cook gently over a low heat for 30-40
minutes, stirring occasionally. The mixture will become a fairly dry,
golden brown mass.
Serve the halva as a dessert, with double cream poured over the top,
if desired.
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The faithful and laborious clergyman of a very large and populous parish had been accustomed, for a long series of years, to preserve notes of his visits to the afflicted, with remarks on the outcome of their affliction – whether life or death, and of the subsequent conduct of those who recovered. He stated, that, during forty years, he had visited more than two thousand people apparently drawing near to death, and who revealed such signs of penitence as would have led him to indulge a good hope of their eternal safety – if they had died at that moment. When they were restored to life and health – he eagerly looked that they should bring forth fruits fit for repentance. But alas! Of the two thousand, only two people manifested an abiding and saving change! The rest, when the terrors of eternity ceased to be in immediate prospect, forgot their pious impressions and their solemn vows – and returned with new avidity to their former worldly mindedness and sinful pursuits, “as the dog returns to its vomit again, and as the sow that was washed to its wallowing in the mire.”

Gorham Abbott