Friday, January 7, 2011

How Excellent a Being....

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Timothy 1:17.

"As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a sense, quite different from any thing I ever experienced before. Never any words of Scripture seemed to me as these words did. I thought with myself, how excellent a Being that was, and how happy I should be, if I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up to him in heaven; and be as it were swallowed up in him for ever!"

-- Jonathan Edwards (Complete Works)

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