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Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…
Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal salvation, viz. I. Justification by faith alone. II. Pressing into the Kingdom of God. III. Ruth's resolution. IV. The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. V. The excellency of Jesus Christ. : Delivered at Northampton, chiefly at the time of the late wonderful pouring out of the spirit of God there. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Three lines from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1738
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So we being Members of the Son, are Partakers in our Measure, of the Father's Love to the Son, and Complacence in him. John 17. 23. I in them, and thou in me,—Thou hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. And Verse 26. That the Love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them. And Chap 16. 27. The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. So we shall, according to our Capacities, be Partakers of the Son's Enjoyment of God, and have his Joy fulfilled in our selves, John 17. 13. And by this Means, we shall come to an immensely higher, more intimate, and full Enjoyment of God, than otherwise could have been. For there is doubtless an infinite Intimacy between the Father and the Son; which is expressed by his being in the Bosom of the Father. And Saints being in him, shall, in their Measure and Manner, partake with him in it, and of the Blessedness of it.
And thus is the Affair of our Redemption ordered, that thereby we are brought to an immensely more exalted Kind of Union with God, and Enjoyment of him, both the Father and the Son, than otherwise could have been. For Christ being united to the human Nature, we have Advantage for a more free and full Enjoyment of him, than we could have had if he had remained only in the divine Nature. So again, we being united to a divine Person, as his Members, can have a more intimate Union and Intercourse with God the Father, who is […] in the divine Nature, than otherwise could be▪ Christ who is a divine Person, by taking on him our Nature, descends from the infinite Distance and Height above us, and is brought nigh• to us; whereby we have Advantage ⟨p. 286⟩for the full Enjoyment of him. And, on the other Hand, we, by being in Christ a divine Person, do as it were ascend up to God, through the infinite Distance, and have hereby Advantage for the full Enjoyment of him also.