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1 | Glory of God and Good of the Creature | Rom 15:7 | DocTrinsograce | 216545 | ||
"[Those things] spoken of in Scripture as ultimate ends of God's works, though they may seem at first view to be distinct, are all plainly to be reduced to this one thing, viz. God's internal glory or fulness existing in its emanation. And though God, in seeking this end, seeks the creature's good; yet therein appears His supreme regard to Himself. "The emanation or communication of the divine fulness, consisting in the knowledge of God, love to Him, and joy in Him, has relation indeed both to God and the creature: but it has relation to God as its fountain, as the thing communicated is something of its internal fulness. The water in the stream is something of the fountain; and the beams of the sun are something of the sun. And again, they have relation to God as their object: for the knowledge communicated, is the knowledge of God; and the love communicated, is the love of God; and the happiness communicated, is joy in God. In the creature's knowing, esteeming, loving, rejoicing in, and praising God, the glory of God is both exhibited and acknowledged; His fulness is received and returned. Here is both an emanation and re-emanation. The refulgence shines upon and into the creature, and is reflected back to the luminary. The beams of glory come from God, are something of God, and are refunded back again to their original. So that the whole is of God, and in God, and to God; and He is the beginning, and the middle, and the end. "And though it be true that God has respect to the creature in these things; yet His respect to Himself, and to the creature, are not properly a double and divided respect." --Jonathan Edwards |
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