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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 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. "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should shew forth the praises of him, who hath called you out of darkness into marvellous light".
AND this seems to be represented as the thing wherein the value and proper fruit and end of their virtue appears. Isai. 60. 6. Speaking of the conversion of the gentile nations ⟨p. 80⟩to true religion—"They shall come and show forth the praises of the Lord". Isai. 66. 19. "I will send—unto the nations—and to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the gentiles.
AND this seems to be represented as the thing wherein the value and proper fruit and end of their virtue appears.