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Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The…
Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The nature of true virtue. / by the late Reverend, learned and pious Jonathan Edwards, A.M. president of the College in New-Jersey.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1765
Concerning the END for which GOD created the WORLD. › Chapter 2 › Sect 1
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SECT. I.
The scriptures represent God as making himself his own last end in the creation of the world.
IT is manifest, that the scriptures speak, on all occasions, as tho' God made himself his end in all his works: and as tho' the same being, who is the first cause of all things, were the supreme and last end of all things. Thus in Isai. 44. 6. "Thus saith the Lord, the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts, I am the first, I also am the last, and besides me there is no God". Cap. 48. 12. "I am the first, and I am the last". Rev. 1. 8. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and was, and which is to come, the almighty. ver. 11. I am alpha and omega, the first and the last. ver. 17. I am the first and the last". Cap. 21. 6. "And he said unto me, it is done, I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end". Cap. 22. 13. "I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last".
IT is manifest, that the scriptures speak, on all occasions, as tho' God made himself his end in all his works: and as tho' the same being, who is the first cause of all things, were the supream and last end of all things. Thus in Isai. 44. 6. "Thus saith the Lord, the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts, I am the first, I also am the last, and besides me there is no God". Cap. 48. 12. "I am the first, and I am the last".