Edwards the Exegete Quotes

“Edwards often spoke of Scripture as the very “Word of God,” an “Emanation of his Glory.” Not surprisingly, considering his doctrine of the Trinity, he also wrote of Scripture as the precious “word of Christ,” or “the epistle of Christ that he has written to us.” The Bible bears “the voice of God” to us by virtue of the Spirit. It evokes in us “a strange and unaccountable kind of enchantment.” God caters to our weakness when He speaks to us in Scripture. He condescends to finitude, accommodating ignorance—but speaks nonetheless, for His glory and our good. Thus the Bible is “a perfect rule” and “guide to true happiness.” It functions, when appropriated in faith and earnest practice, as an essential “word of life,” a “sweet, … life-giving word.”
― Douglas A Sweeney, Edwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment