'The creation of the world seems to have been especially for this end, that the eternal Son of God might obtain a spouse, towards whom he might fully exercise the infinite benevolence of his nature, and to whom he might, as it were, open and pour forth all that immense fountain of condescension , love, and grace that was in his heart, and this in this way God might be glorified.'
Jonathan Edwards in Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly, p.206.
