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solitude, wrote his greatest books in the next most productive eight years. ? He died of a smallpox inoculation in 1758 Aspects of Edwards’ Religious Philosophy ? 1. His mystical conversion at age seventeen. “I often used to sit and view the Moon, for a long time。 and so in the daytime spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to behold glory of God in these things 。 in the meantime singing forth, with a low voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer.” from Personal Narrative” ? 2. He agreed with John Locke in the concept that ideas are generated by sense impressions “knowledge must be supplemented by faith. ” ? 3. He believed in the intuitive process。 a person must passively surrender to receive grace through senses. One cannot achieve saving grace through a rational process. ? 4. From Isaac Newton, Edwards borrowed the concept that the harmonious working of the universe reflected the