for Stewart and other Hobbists

“As to Mr. Hobbes’ maintaining the same doctrine concerning necessity; I confess, it happens I never read Mr. Hobbes.  Let his opinion be what it will, we need not reject all truth which is demonstrated by clear evidence, merely because it was once held by some bad man.  This great truth, that Jesus is the Son of God, was not spoiled because it was once and again proclaimed with a loud voice by the devil.  If truth is so defiled because it is spoken by the mouth, or written by the pen of some ill-minded mischievous man, that it must never be received, we shall never know when we hold any of the most precious and evident truths by a sure tenure.”

(Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will 4.6; Works 1.374)