Virtually every Christian associates Jonathan Edwards with his famous sermon SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD, but what about personal holiness and the glory of God? He was so devoted to personal piety that he penned 70 resolutions that would be the guardrails of life to live each moment to emanate the glory of God. He stated, "It appears that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works is included in that one phrase, 'the glory of God.' In the creatures' knowing, esteeming, loving, rejoicing in and praising God, the glory of God is both exhibited and acknowledged; His fullness is received and returned. Here is both the emanation and remanation. The refulgence shines upon and into the creature, and is reflected back to the luminary. The beams of glory come from God, and are something of God and are refunded back again to their original. So that the whole is OF God and IN God, and God is the beginning, middle and end in this affair." Here was a man committed to and wrapped up in the glory of God. This was the unwavering resolve of America's greatest pastor-theologian. He had a brilliant mind and began the study of Latin at 6, and was reading Greek and Hebrew before he was 13. And all of that brilliant mind was focused on unpacking the glory of God in personal lives of holiness. We will highlight Edwards & Whitefield as we look at Puritanism in England & America in our next study of Church History, moving from Reformation to Revival.
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