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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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IT is spoken of as the end of the virtue of God's people, in like manner as is God's glory. Phil. 1. 11. "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ to the praise and glory of God."
IT is spoken of as the end of the work of redemption. In the first chap. of Eph. where that work in the various parts of it is particularly insisted on, and set forth in its exceeding glory, this is mentioned from time to time as the great end of all, that it should be "to the praise of his glory." (As in ver. 6, 12, 14.) By which we may ⟨p. 85⟩doubtless understand much the same thing, with that which in Phil. 1. 11. is expressed, "his praise and glory." Agreeable to this, Jacob's fourth son, from whom the Messiah the great Redeemer was to proceed, by the spirit of prophecy, or the special direction of God's providence, was called PRAISE, with reference to this happy consequence, and glorious end of that great redemption, this Messiah, one of his posterity, was to work out.
IT is spoken of as the end of the work of redemption. In the first chap. of Eph. where that work in the various parts of it is particularly insisted on, and set forth in its exceeding glory, this is mentioned from time to time as the great end of all, that it should be "to the praise of his glory." (As in ver. 6, 12, 14.) By which we may ⟨p. 85⟩doubtless understand much the same thing, with that which in Phil. 1. 11. is expressed, "his praise and glory." Agreable to this, Jacob's fourth son, from whom the Messiah the great Redeemer was to proceed, by the spirit of prophecy, or the special direction of God's providence, was called PRAISE, with reference to this happy consequence, and glorious end of that great redemption, this Messiah, one of his posterity, was to work out.