# “O, admire the wonderful grace of God!” by Jonathan Edwards

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“What exceeding great reason we have to admire the grace of God towards us, that
He should so lay out Himself to provide such a feast for our souls. God has not 
provided this feast for those that are rich, that are able to recompense Him by 
inviting Him again, nor for them that are able to make any recompense at all; but
those that are poor and have nothing to pay.

We were in a famishing miserable condition when the King invited us to the marriage
feast of His Son, and not only so, but to be His bride. God did not make this feast
for those that were excellent and worthy to be invited to such a royal feast, but
for those that were filthy, that were loathsome creatures clothed in rags, or rather
naked, and defiled with filth.

He did not invite those that were happy already, but poor beggars that were scattered,
wandering in the highways and dwelling under hedges, those that were halt and lame
and blind. Such all naturally are, but God sends forth His messengers, and calls
many such to His houses, and washes them from their filthiness and clothes them 
with white raiment, adorns them with robes as King’s children and makes them to 
sit down at His table. O, what reason have we to admire the wonderful grace of God!”

-–Jonathan Edwards, “The Spiritual Blessings of the Gospel Represented by a Feast,”_
Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729_, in _The Works of Jonathan Edwards_, Vol. 14,
Ed. Kenneth P. Minkema (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 289.

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