Grace and Balance (J.E)
The title is subjective to the reader. I guess.
This is Jonathan Edwards on a revelation that he had while Northampton, of which he was pastor of, was experiencing an awakening.
What distinguishes saints from the unconverted is that the Holy Spirit dwells within converted persons and so gives them the power to apprehend the things of God…it is the power [of God] necessary to appreciate the spiritual light that radiates from God, the power to hear the communication of God’s love that pervades the universe…It’s a power to appreciate beauty or excellency, specifically the beauty and excellency of Christ.
These next three are gold. (The Word of God is platinum)
Such knowledge… is qualitative and affective, not simply rational or theoretical.
The “Spiritually enlightened” person does not “merely believe, rationally, that God is glorious, but he has a sense of the gloriousness of God in his heart.
But, people of “an ordinary degree of knowledge”, are capable, without a long and subtle train of reasoning to see the divine excellency of the things of religion.
