Ratiocination, without...spiritual light, never will give one such an advantage to see things in their true relations and respects to other things, and to things in general. ... A man that sets himself to reason without divine light is like a man that goes in the dark into a garden full of the most beautiful plants, and most artfully ordered, and compares things together by going from one thing to another to feel of them all, to perceive their beauty.
Jonathon Edwards, "Miscellanies #408," in The Philosophy of Jonathon Edwards, ed. H. G. Townsend (1955; reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1972), P. 249.