N07809:228
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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." Psal. 2•. 21, 22. "Save me from the lion's mouth. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee," compared with Heb. 2 12. and Joh. 17. 26. Isai. 64. 4. "O that thou wouldest rent the heavens—to make thy name known to thine adversaries.—"
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 shew 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."