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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 eternal damnation of the wicked, and also the eternal happiness of the righteous. Rom. 9. 22, 23. "What if God, willing to show his wrath, and make his power known, endured with much long suffering, the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he ha•• afore prepared unto glory"?
THIS is spoken of as the end of the eternal damnation of the wicked, and also the eternal happiness of the righteous. Rom. 9. 22, 23. "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and make his power known, endured with much long suffering, the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he ha•• afore prepared unto glory"?
THIS is spoken of from time to time, as a great end of the miracles which God wrought. See Exod. 7. 17. and 8. 10. and. 10. 2. Deut. 29. 5, 6. Ezek. 24. 27.
THIS is spoken of as a great end of ordinances. Exod. 29. 44, 45, 46