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

6. GOD's judgments on the wicked in this world, and also their eternal damnation in the world to come, are spoken of as being for the happiness of God's people. So are his judgments on them in this World. Isai. 43. 3, 4. "For I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy saviour. I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life". So the works of God's vindictive justice and wrath, are spoken of as works of mercy to his people, Psal. 136. 10. 15, 17, 18, 19, 20. And so is their eternal damnation in another world. Rom. 9. 22. 23. "What if God, willing to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much long suffering, ⟨p. 91⟩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 had afore prepared unto glory". Here it is evident the last verse comes in, in connect on with the foregoing, as giving another reason of the destruction of the wicked, viz. the showing the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy; in higher degrees of their glory and happiness, in an advancement of their relish of their own enjoyments, and greater sense of their value, and of God's free grace in the bestowment.

6. GOD's judgments on the wicked in this world, and also their eternal damnation in the world to come, are spoken of as being for the happiness of God's people. So are his judgments on them in this World. Isai. 43. 3, 4. "For I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy saviour. I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life". So the works of God's vindictive justice and wrath, are spoken of as works of mercy to his people,