Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards
at New Haven with the valedictory. In his Sophomore year he made the acquaintance of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding'a work which left a permanent impress on his thinking. He read it, he says, with a far higher pleasure 'than the most greedy miser finds when gathering up handfuls of silver and gold from some newly-discovered treasure.
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