Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The…

So the words of the apostle, in Rom. 11. 36. naturally lead us to suppose that the way in which all things are to God, is in being for his glory. "For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen". In the preceding context the apostle observes the marvellous disposals of divine wisdom, for causing all things to be to him in their final issue and result, as they are from him at first, & governed by him. His discourse shows how God contrived and brought this to pass in his disposition of things, viz. by setting up the kingdom of Christ in the world; leaving the jews, and calling the gentiles; and in what he would hereafter do in bringing in the jews with the fullness of the gentiles; with the circumstances of these wonderful works, so as greatly to show his justice and his goodness, magnify his grace, and manifest the sovereignty and freeness of it, and the absolute dependence of all on him—And then in the four last verses, breaks out into a most pathetic rapturous exclamation, expressing his great admiration of the depth of divine wisdom in the ⟨p. 58⟩steps he takes for the attaining his end, and causing all things to be to him: and finally, he expresses a joyful consent to God's excellent design in all to glorify himself, in saying, "to him be glory forever"; as much as to say, as all things are so wonderfully ordered for his glory, so let him have the glory of all, forevermore.

So the words of the apostle, in Rom. 11. 36. naturally lead us to suppose that the way in which all things are to God, is in being for his glory. "For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen". In the preceeding context the apostle observes the marvellous disposals of divine wisdom, for causing all things to be to him in their final issue and result, as they are from him at first, & governed by him. His discourse shews how God contrived and brought this to pass in his disposition of things, viz. by setting up the kingdom of Christ in the world; leaving the jews, and calling the gentiles; and in what he would hereafter do in bringing in the jews with the fulness of the gentiles; with the circumstances of these wonderful works, so as greatly to shew his justice and his goodness, magnify his grace, and manifest the sovereignty and freeness of it, and the absolute dependence of all on him—And then in the four last verses, breaks out into a most pathetic rapturous exclamation, expressing his great admiration of the depth of divine wisdom in the