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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 3
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Verily, verily I say unto ⟨p. 69⟩you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit".
So it is manifest that when he seeks his own and his father's glory, in that prayer, Joh. 17. (which, it has been observed, he then seeks as his last end) he seeks it as the end of that great work he came into the world upon, which he is now about to finish in his death. What follows through' the whole prayer, plainly shows this: and particularly the 4th. and 5th. verses. "I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O father, glorify thou me with thine own self". Here 'tis pretty plain that declaring to his father, that he had glorified him on earth, and finished the work God gave him to do, meant that he had finished the work which God gave him to do for this end, viz. that he might be glorified. He had now finished that foundation that he came into the world to lay for his glory. He had laid a foundation for his father's obtaining his will, and the utmost that he designed. By which it is manifest, that God's glory was the utmost of his design, or his ultimate end in this great work.
So it is manifest that when he seeks his own and his father's glory, in that prayer, Joh. 17. (which, it has been observed, he then seeks as his last end) he seeks it as the end of that great work he came into the world upon, which he is now about to finish in his death. What follows thro' the whole prayer, plainly shews this: and particularly the 4th. and 5th. verses. "I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O father, glorify thou me with thine own self". Here 'tis pretty plain that declaring to his father, that he had glorified him on earth, and finished the work God gave him to do, meant that he had finished the work which God gave him to do for this end, viz. that he might be glorified. He had now finished that foundation that he came into the world to lay for his glory. He had laid a foundation for his father's obtaining his will, and the utmost that he designed. By which it is manifest, that God's glory was the utmost of his design, or his ultimate end in this great work.