true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

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