Praise God—it is almost Sunday! So as to help prepare us for the Lord's Day's church worship, here are some good words from the Jonathan Ed-wards, as they are taken from his sermon entitled, "God Glorified in Man's Dependence”:
"The grace of God in bestowing this gift of salvation is completely free. God was under no obligation to bestow this grace. He might well have rejected fal-len man as He did the fallen angels. We never did anything to merit God’s grace; it was given to us while we were yet God’s enemies, and before we had so much as even repented. It was from the love of God, who saw no ex-cellency in us to attract it. . . ."And it is from mere grace that the benefits of Christ are applied to such and such particular persons. Those who are called and sanctified are to attribute it to the good pleasure of God's goodness alone, by which they are distinguish-ed. God is sovereign, and has mercy on who He will have mercy."
