# “Speak and think and live God’s praises” by Jonathan Edwards

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“Let those who have been made partakers of this free and glorious grace of God, 
spend their lives much in praises and hallelujahs to God, for the wonders of his
mercy in their redemption. To you, O redeemed of the Lord, doth this doctrine most
directly apply itself; you are those who have been made partakers of all this glorious
grace of which you have now heard.

‘Tis you that God entertained thoughts of restoring after your miserable fall into
dreadful depravity and corruption, and into danger of the dreadful misery that unavoidably
follows upon it; ’tis for you in particular that God gave his Son, yea, his only
Son, and sent him into the world; ’tis for you that the Son of God so freely gave
himself; ’tis for you that he was born, died, rose again and ascended, and intercedes;’
tis to you that there the free application of the fruit of these things is made:
all this is done perfectly and altogether freely, without any of your desert, without
any of your righteousness or strength; wherefore, let your life be spent in praises
to God.

When you praise him in prayer, let it not be with coldness and indifferency; when
you praise him in your closet, let your whole soul be active therein; when you praise
him in singing, don’t barely make a noise, without any stirring of affection in 
the heart, without any internal melody… Surely, if the angels are so astonished 
at God’s mercy to you, and do even shout with joy and admiration at the sight of
God’s grace to you, you yourself, on whom this grace is bestowed, have much more
reason to shout.

Consider that great part of your happiness in heaven, to all eternity, will consist
in this: in praising of God, for his free and glorious grace in redeeming you; and
if you would spend more time about it on earth, you would find this world would 
be much more of a heaven to you than it is. Wherefore, do nothing while you are 
alive, but speak and think and live God’s praises.”

–Jonathan Edwards, “Glorious Grace: A Sermon on Zechariah 4:7” in _The Works of 
Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 10, Sermons and Discourses 1720-1723_. Ed. Wilson H. Kimnach(
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), 399.

[HT: [TSS](http://spurgeon.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/edwards-cross-centeredness-and-application/)]

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