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So whenever a man comes to that in which his desire terminates and rests , it
being something valued on its own account , then he comes to an ultimate end ,
let the chain be longer or shorter ; yea , if there be but one link or one step that he
...
So whenever a man comes to that in which his desire terminates and rests , it
being something valued on its own account , then he comes to an ultimate end ,
let the chain be longer or shorter ; yea , if there be but one link or one step that he
...
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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 ...
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 ...
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But yet a subordinate end may be valued more than some other ultimate end that
it is not subordinate to , but is independent of it , and does not belong to that
series , or chain of ends . Thus for instance : If a man goes a journey to receive a
...
But yet a subordinate end may be valued more than some other ultimate end that
it is not subordinate to , but is independent of it , and does not belong to that
series , or chain of ends . Thus for instance : If a man goes a journey to receive a
...
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Thus God may have ends of particular works of providence , which are ultimate
ends in a lower sense , which were not ... of ultimate ends ; one of which may be
called an original , and independent ultimate end ; the oiber consequential and ...
Thus God may have ends of particular works of providence , which are ultimate
ends in a lower sense , which were not ... of ultimate ends ; one of which may be
called an original , and independent ultimate end ; the oiber consequential and ...
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And therefore , Seventhly , If we use the phrase ultimate end in this high , est
sense , then the same that is God ' s ultimate end in creating the world , if we
suppose but one such end , must be what he makes his ultimate aim in all his
works , in ...
And therefore , Seventhly , If we use the phrase ultimate end in this high , est
sense , then the same that is God ' s ultimate end in creating the world , if we
suppose but one such end , must be what he makes his ultimate aim in all his
works , in ...
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| Title | The Works of President Edwards ..., Volume 6 American culture series, Reel 495.6-496.1 Issue 14925 of Early American imprints The Works of President Edwards, Jonathan Edwards |
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
| Editor | Samuel Austin |
| Publisher | Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 May 2008 |
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