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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

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Jonathan Edwards · Charity and Its Fruits; or, Christian Love as Manifested in the Heart and Life, ed. Tryon Edwards (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1852), Lecture VIII, "The Spirit of Charity the Opposite of a Selfish Spirit" (1 Cor. 13:5), p. 157
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