# “The glorious excellencies and beauty of God” by Jonathan Edwards

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“The redeemed have all their _objective_ good in God. God Himself is the great good
which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption.

He is the highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ purchased. God
is the inheritance of the saints; He is the portion of their souls.

God is their wealth and treasure, their food, their life, their dwelling place, 
their ornament and diadem, and their everlasting honor and glory. They have none
in heaven but God.

He is the great good which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they
are to rise to at the end of the world. The Lord God, He is the light of the heavenly
Jerusalem, and is the ‘river of the water of life’ that runs, and the tree of life
that grows, ‘in the midst of the paradise of God’.

The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will be what will forever entertain 
the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.

The redeemed will indeed enjoy other things. They will enjoy the angels, and will
enjoy one another: but that which they shall enjoy in the angels, or each other,
or in anything else whatsoever, that will yield then delight and happiness, will
be what will be seen of God in them.”

–Jonathan Edwards, “[God Glorified in the Work of Redemption, by the Greatness of Man’s Dependance upon Him, in the Whole of It (1731)](http://amzn.to/2v2pxjK),”
in [_The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader_](http://amzn.to/2v2pxjK), ed. Wilson
H. Kimnach, Kenneth P. Minkema, and Douglas A Sweeney (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1999), 74-75.

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