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Now God is the best good, and fountain of all felicity, and they that are capable of knowing much of him, and loving him much, must be capable of that which is a vast and unspeakable delight.
And doubtless when God gave man such a nature, so capacitated, he did it knowingly and with design, and gave him such a soul and nature that he might be capable of such blessedness, and that all of men that should truly love him might actually enjoy so great pleasure.
And doubtless when God gave man such a nature, so capacitated, he did it knowingly and with design, and gave him such a soul and nature that he might be capable of such blessedness, and that all of men that should truly love him might actually enjoy so great pleasure.
Jonathan Edwards, “Nothing Upon Earth Can Represent the Glories of Heaven” in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 14
