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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 5
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4. THAT the government of the world in all parts of it, is for the good of such as are to be the eternal subjects of God's goodness, is implied in what the scripture teaches us of Christ's being set at God's right hand, made king of angels and men; set at the head of the universe, having all p••er given him in heaven und earth, to that end that he may promote their happiness; being made head over all things to the church, and having the government of the whole creation for their good.* Christ mentions it (Mar. 28. 29.) as the reason why the son of man is made Lord of the ⟨p. 90⟩sabbath, that "the sabbath was made for man". And if so, we may in like manner argue, that all things were made for man, that the son of man is made Lord of all things.
5. THAT God uses the whole creation, in his whole government of it, for the good of his people, is most elegantly represented in Deut. 33. 26. "There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rideth on the heavens in thine help, and in his excellency on the sky". The whole universe is a machine, which God hath made for his own use▪ to be his chariot for him to ride in; as is represented in Ezekiels vision. In this chariot God's seat, or throne is heaven, where he sits, who uses and governs and rides in this chariot (