"When the True beauty and attraction of the holiness found in Divine things is discovered by the soul, a new world of perspectives is opened. The glory of all the perfections of God and of everything that pertains to him is revealed. A sense of the moral beauty of Divine things enables us to understand the sufficiency of Christ as Mediator. In this way the believer is led into the knowledge of the excellency of Christ's Person. The saints are then made aware of the preciousness of Christ's blood and of its sufficiency to atone for sin. On this depends the merit of His obedience, and sufficiency and prevalence of Christ's intercession. The beauty of the way of salvation by Christ is made manifest in all these ways. Thus all true experienced religion comes from this sense of spiritual beauty."
Jonathan Edwards
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