The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... spoken of as a meet and suitable thing , a branch of his glo- ry ; a meet prerogative of the great , infinite and eternal be- ing ; a thing becoming the dignity of him who is infinitely above all other beings ; from whom all things are ...
... spoken of as a meet and suitable thing , a branch of his glo- ry ; a meet prerogative of the great , infinite and eternal be- ing ; a thing becoming the dignity of him who is infinitely above all other beings ; from whom all things are ...
Page 63
... spoken of as God's ultimate end in his works of providence in general , we may justly suppose to be his last end in the work of creation ......... This appears from what was observed before ( under the fifth particular of the ...
... spoken of as God's ultimate end in his works of providence in general , we may justly suppose to be his last end in the work of creation ......... This appears from what was observed before ( under the fifth particular of the ...
Page 66
... spoken of as the main end of the goodness of the good part of the moral world , so that the respect and relation their virtue or goodness has to that end , is what chiefly makes it valuable and desirable ; I say , we may well suppose ...
... spoken of as the main end of the goodness of the good part of the moral world , so that the respect and relation their virtue or goodness has to that end , is what chiefly makes it valuable and desirable ; I say , we may well suppose ...
Page 68
... spoken of as his last end in the great work mentioned , not as an inferior , subordinate end , subservi- ent to the interest of others . The words are emphatical . The emphasis and repetition constrain us to understand that what God ...
... spoken of as his last end in the great work mentioned , not as an inferior , subordinate end , subservi- ent to the interest of others . The words are emphatical . The emphasis and repetition constrain us to understand that what God ...
Page 69
... spoken of in holy scripture as the last end for which that part of the moral world that are good were made . Thus in Isaiah xliii . 6 , 7. “ I will say to the North , give up , and to the South , keep not back .... Bring my sons from ...
... spoken of in holy scripture as the last end for which that part of the moral world that are good were made . Thus in Isaiah xliii . 6 , 7. “ I will say to the North , give up , and to the South , keep not back .... Bring my sons from ...
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