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

THERE are several scriptures which would lead us to suppose this to be the great thing that God sought of the moral world, and the end aimed at in the moral agents, which he had created, wherein they are to be active in answering their end. This seems implied in that argument God's people sometimes made use of, in deprecating a state of death and destruction: that in such a state, they can't know or make known the glorious excellency of God. Psal. 88. 18, 19. "Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness"? So Psal. 30. 9. Isai. 38. 18, 19. The argument seems to be this: Why should we perish? and how shall thine end, for which thou hast made us, be obtained in a state of destruction, in which thy glory cannot be known or declared?

THIS is spoken of as the end of the good part of the moral world, or the end of God's people in the same manner as the glory of God. Isai. 43. 21. "This people have I formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise". 1 Pet. 2. 9. "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him, who hath called you out of darkness into marvellous light".

THIS is spoken of as the end of the good part of the moral world, or the end of God's people in the same manner as the glory of God. Isai. 43. 21. "This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise". 1 Pet. 2. 9