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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 seems to to be spoken of as a great end of the acts of God's moral government. Particularly, the great judgments he executes for sin. Exod. 9. 16. "And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth". Dan. 4. 17. "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, &c.—To the intent that the living may know that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will; and setteth up over it the basest of men". But places to this purpose are too numerous to be particularly recited. See them in the margin.*
THIS seems to to be spoken of as a great end of the acts of God's moral government. Particularly, the great judgments he executes for sin. Exod. 9. 16. "And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, to shew in thee my power, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth". Dan. 4. 17. "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, &c.—To the intent that the living may know that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will; and setteth up over it the basest of men". But places to this purpose are too numerous to be particularly recited. See them in the margin.*