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

1. THAT two different ends may be both ultimate ends, and yet not be chief ends. They may be both valued for ⟨p. 4⟩their own sake, and both sought in the same work or acts, and yet one valued more highly and sought more than another: Thus a man may go a journey to obtain two different benefits or enjoyments, both which may be agreeable to him in themselves considered, and so both may be what he values on their own account and seeks for their own sake; And yet one may be much more agreeable than the other: And so be what he sets his heart chiefly upon, and seeks most after in his going a journey. Thus a man may go a journey partly to obtain the possession and enjoyment of a bride that is very dear to him, and partly to gratify his curiosity in looking in a telescope, or some new-invented and extraordinary optic glass: Both may be ends he seeks in his journey, and the one not properly subordinate or in order to another. One may not depend on another; and therefore both may be ultimate ends: But yet the obtaining his beloved bride may be his chief end, and the benefit of the optic glass, his inferior end. The former may be what he sets his heart vastly most upon; and so be properly the chief end of his journey.

1. THAT two different ends may be both ultimate ends, and yet not be chief ends. They may be both valued for ⟨p. 4⟩their own sake, and both sought in the same work or acts, and yet one valued more highly and sought more than another: Thus a man may go a journey to obtain two different benefits or enjoyments, both which may be agreable to him in themselves considered, and so both may be what he values on their own account and seeks for their own sake; And yet one may be much more agreable than the other: And so be what he sets his heart chiefly upon, and seeks most after in his going a journey. Thus a man may go a journey partly to obtain the possession and enjoyment of a bride that is very dear to him, and partly to gratify his curiosity in looking in a telescope, or some new-invented and extraordinary optic glass: Both may be ends he seeks in his journey, and the one not properly subordinate or in order to another. One may not depend on another; and therefore both may be ultimate ends: But yet the obtaining his beloved bride may be his chief end, and the benefit of the optic glass, his inferior end. The former may be what he sets his heart vastly most upon; and so be properly the chief end of his journey.