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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 4
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THIS also is spoken of as the end of the virtue and religion, and holy behaviour of the saints. Rom. 1. 5. "By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the •aith among all nations for his name." Matt. 19. 29. "Every one that forsaketh houses or brethren &c.—for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life." 3 Joh. 7. "Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the gentiles." Rev. 2. 3. "And hast born, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not •ainted."
THIS also is spoken of as the end of the virtue and religion, and holy behaviour of the saints. Rom. 1. 5. "By whom we have received grace and appostleship, for obedience to the •aith among all nations for his name." Matt. 19. 29. "Every one that forsaketh houses or brethren &c.—for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life." 3 Joh. 7. "Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the gentiles." Rev. 2. 3. "And hast born, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not •ainted."
AND we find that holy persons express their desire of this, and their joy in it, in the same manner as in the glory of God.