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Edwards ’ s theology insisted that man is a self-contained , sensuous ego who , through his own perception , can apprehend the grace of God in himself . Religion proceeds from the same spring , and tends to the same end ; and the good of mankind so entirely depends upon these two , that no people ever enjoyed anything worth desiring that was not the product of them ; and whatsoever any have suffer 'd that deserves to be abhorr 'd and feared , has proceeded either from the defect of these , or the wrath of God against them . God , and flows from his grace ; which all that are spiritually minded partake of , and shall have it ; this is certain from the promise , that whosoever seeth the Son , and believes in him , should not perish , but have everlasting life ; and from the grace of God in them , which is a well of living water springing up unto everlasting life ; and from the Spirit of God in them , the earnest of it , and who makes meet for eternal life , and introduces into it , because of the righteousness of Christ , which entitles to it . We can now look back and see the hand of God in every portion of our Scripture text . And as to that imperfect contrition which is called attrition , because it is commonly conceived either from the consideration of the turpitude of sin , or from the fear of hell and of punishment , the council declares that if with the hope of pardon , it excludes the wish to sin , it not only does not make man a hypocrite and a greater sinner , but that it is even a gift of God , and an impulse of the Holy Spirit , who does not indeed as yet dwell in the penitent , but who only moves him whereby the penitent , being assisted , prepares a way for himself unto justice , and although this attrition cannot of itself , without the Sacrament of Penance , conduct the sinner to justification yet does it dispose him to receive the grace of God in the Sacrament of Penance . Now since the ends of this work are so high as to fit us for his praise , his delight , and a fruition of him ; since it is to bring the interest of God into the soul , set him up highest in the heart who before was trampled under our feet , enthrone him as king in the soul , cause us to oppose all that opposes him , cherish everything that is agreeable to him , this must be his work or the work of none . that you may see and all the world acknowledge the hand of God in this business.12 In truth , the English victory was much more dependent on Scottish ineptitude than divine intervention , but the effect on public opinion of a success against such a numerically superior force was undoubtedly tremendous . The whole story is a tragedy : and if it be pretended that this proceeded rather from the wrath of God against his people for their idolatry , than from such causes as are applicable to other nations ; I answer , that this idolatry was the production of the government they had set up , and most suitable to it ; and chusing rather to subject themselves to the will of a man , than to the law of God , they deservedly suffer 'd the evils that naturally follow the worst counsels .