Bless God—it is almost Sunday, again! In order to help us get ready for church, here are some great words from Jonathan Edwards. This comes from his, “A History of the Work of Redemption” book. . . .
“Another great design of God in the work of redemption was to gather togeth-er in one all things in Christ, in heaven and in earth, that is, all elect crea-tures; to bring all elect creatures, in heaven and in earth, to a union one to an-other in one body, under one Head, and to unite all together in one body to God the Father. This was begun soon after the Fall, and is carried on through all ages of the world, and finished at the end of the world.
“ . . . [God] intended to bring them to perfect excellency and beauty in His im-age, and in holiness, which is the proper beauty of spiritual beings; and to ad-vance them to a glorious degree of honor, and also to an ineffable pitch of pleasure and joy; and thus to glorify the whole church of elect [persons] in soul and body, and with them to bring the glory of the elect angels to its high-est pitch under one Head. The world which tends to this, God began immedi-ately after the Fall, and carries on through all ages, and will have perfected at the end of the world."
