The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

The first five lines of this entry are at the bottom of the MS page, which is badly tattered, and no copy is available. The few fragments of text that can be read with reasonable certainty are printed, since they help show the direction the argument is taking. Most of the gaps represented by ellipsis dots are several words long, and the last represents two whole lines in the MS. This is certain, as to a demonstration of infused habits, that if there be none, if there is no moment wherein truly [saving]Possibly "sanctified"; only the first two letters survive.... infused... degrees... as all... habits gradually increase, so that there must be some wicked men in... perfection... to be... good, as to... good... toOr "for"; part of the word is missing at the margin. inexpressible happiness.

Now it is certain that [in] every man that becomes good, there is a last moment of his being bad and a first moment of his being good, a last

moment of his being in a state of damnation and a first moment of his being in a state of salvation; or thus, there is a time before which if he had died but one moment, he would have gone to hell, and after which if he had died but one moment, he would have gone to heaven: this is self-evident. Or, which is all one, he is made immensely a better man in a moment than he was before; which being allowed, it is also self-evident that the notion of acquired habits is wrong. So that it is evident to a metaphysical demonstration, that one of these things is true of that man that is become good: either there was a time wherein if he had died he would neither have gone to heaven nor hell, that is, neither to great happiness nor great misery; or else the future state is not according to men's goodness or badness here; or else, there are infused habits.