# “An everlasting wedding day” by Jonathan Edwards

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“The end of the creation of God was to provide a spouse for His Son Jesus Christ
that might enjoy Him and on whom He might pour forth His love. And the end of all
things in providence are to make way for the exceeding expressions of Christ’s love
to His spouse and for her exceeding close and intimate union with, and high and 
glorious enjoyment of, Him and to bring this to pass.

And therefore the last thing and the issue of all things is the marriage of the 
Lamb. And the wedding day is the last day, the day of judgment, or rather that will
be the beginning of it. The wedding feast is eternal; and the love and joys, the
songs, entertainments and glories of the wedding never will be ended. It will be
an everlasting wedding day.”

–Jonathan Edwards, “Miscellany #702” in _The “Miscellanies”: Entries Nos. 501-832_
in _The Works of Jonathan Edwards_, Vol. 18, Ed. Ava Chamberlain (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2000), 298.

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