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

THIS is spoken of as a great end of the redemption out of Egypt. Psal. 106. 8. "Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake that he might make his mighty power to be known." See also Exod. 7. 5 and Deut. 4. 34, 35. And also of the redemption from the Babylonish captivity. Ezek 20. 34,—38. "And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries whither ye are scattered.—And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people; and there I will plead with you, as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt.—And I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. And I will purge out the rebels.—And ye shall know that I am the Lord." Ver. 42. "And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel."—Ver. 44. "And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake." See also, chap. 28. 25, 26. and 36. 11. and 37. 6, 13.

THIS is also spoken of as a great end of the work of redemption of Jesus Christ: both of the purchase of redemption by Christ, and the application of redemption. Rom. 3. 25, 26. "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness.—To declare I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." Eph. 2. 4,—7. "But God who is rich in mercy &c.—That he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Jesus Christ." chap. 3. 8, 9, 10. "To preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see, what is the fellowship of that mystery which, from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places, might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God."