The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

As we have shown and demonstrated, that,MS: "demonstrated in that"; JE was refering to his "Natural Philosophy," for No. f is based directly on two entries in that notebook. One is Long Series no. 26 (Works, 6, 235); the other is no. 44 of the same series, the third corollary of which seems to be partially incorporated into No. f (ibid., p. 238). contrary to the opinion of Hobbes (that nothing is substance but matter), that no matter is substance but only God, who is a spirit, and that other spirits are more substantial than matter; so also it is true, that no happiness is solid and substantial but spiritual happiness, although it may seem that sensual pleasures are most real and spiritual only imaginary, as it seems as if sensible matter were only real and spiritual substance only imaginary.