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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
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FROM hence also it is evident, that the divine virtue, or the virtue of the divine mind, must consist primarily in love to himself, or in the mutual love and friendship which subsists eternally and necessarily between the several persons ⟨p. 132⟩in the God-head, or that infinitely strong propensity there is in there divine persons one •o another. There is no need of multiplying words, to prove that it must be thus, on a supposition that virtue in its most essential na••e, consists in benevolent •ffect on or propensity of heart towards Being in general; and so flowing out to particular Beings, in a greater or lesser degree, according to the measure of existence and beauty which they are possessed of.—It will also follow from the foregoing things, that God's goodness and love to created Beings, is derived from, and subordinate to his love to himself. [In what manner it is so, I have endeavoured in some measure to explain in the preceding discourse of God's end in creating the world.]
FROM hence also it is evident, that the divine virtue, or the virtue of the divine mind, must consist primarily in love to himself, or in the mutual love and friendship which subsists eternally and necessarily between the several persons ⟨p. 132⟩in the God-head, or that infinitely strong propensity there is in there divine persons one •o another. There is no need of multiplying words, to prove that it must be thus, on a supposition that virtue in its most essential na••e, consists in benevolent •ffect on or propensity of heart towards Being in general; and so flowing out to particular Beings, in a greater or lesser degree, according to the measure of existence and beauty which they are possessed of.—It will also follow from the foregoing things, that God's goodness and love to created Beings, is derived from, and subordinate to his love to himself. [In what manner it is so, I have endeavoured in some measure to explain in the preceeding discourse of God's end in creating the world.]