Edwards’s journals frequently explored and tested a meditation he seldom allowed to reach print; if all the world were annihilated, he
wrote… and a new world were freshly created, though it were to exist in ev€ry particular in the same manner as this World, it would still not be the same. Ther€fore, because there is continuity, which is time, “it is certain with me that the world exists anew every moment; that the existence of things every moment ceases and is every moment renewed.” The abiding assurance is that ‘we every moment see the same proof of a God as we should have seen if we had seen Him create the world at first.”

–Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards