# “The brighter glories and beauties of the Creator of all” by Jonathan Edwards

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“We admire at the beauty of creation, at the beautiful order of it, at the glory
of the sun, moon, and stars. The sun appears very bright and glorious. So beautiful
doth it appear that many nations take it to be the supreme god, and worship it accordingly,
but we have much more reason from the beauty of the sun to admire at the invisible
glory of that God whose fingers have formed it…

The beauty of trees, plants, and flowers, with which God has bespangled the face
of the earth, is delightful. The beautiful frame of the body of man, especially 
in its perfection, is astonishing. The beauty of the moon and stars is wonderful.
The beauty of the highest heavens is transcendent. The excellency of angels and 
the saints in light is very glorious. But it is all deformity and darkness in comparison
of the brighter glories and beauties of the Creator of all, for ‘behold even to 
the moon, and it shineth not’ (Job 25:5).

That is, think of the excellency of God and the moon will not seem to shine to you,
God’s excellency so much outshines it. And the stars are not pure in His sight, 
and so we know that at the great day when God appears, the sun shall be turned into
darkness, shall hide his face as if he were ashamed to see himself so much outshined.
And the very angels, they hide their faces before Him. The highest heavens are not
clean in His sight.”

–Jonathan Edwards, “God’s Excellencies” in _The Works of Jonathan Edwards_, Vol.
10, _Sermons and Discourses 1720-1723_. Ed. Wilson H. Kimnach (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1992), 420-1.

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