DISSERTATION I. CONCERNING THE END FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE WORLD 403
Introduction. Containing Explanations of Terms, and General Positions 405
Chapter One. Wherein Is Considered What Reason Teaches Concerning This Affair 417
SECTION I. Some Things Observed in General Which Reason Dictates 419
SECTION II. Some Farther Observations Concerning Those Things Which Reason Leads Us to Suppose God Aimed At in the Creation of the World, Showing Particularly What Things That Are Absolutely Good Are Actually the Consequence of the Creation of the World 428
SECTION III. Wherein It Is Considered How, on the Supposition of God's Making the Forementioned Things His Last End, He Manifests a Supreme and Ultimate Regard to Himself in All His Works 436
SECTION IV. Some Objections Considered Which May Be Made against the Reasonableness of What Has Been Said of God's Making Himself His Last End 445
Chapter Two. Wherein It Is Inquired, What Is to Be Learned from Holy Scriptures Concerning God's Last End in the Creation of the World 465
SECTION I. The Scriptures Represent God as Making Himself His Own Last End in the Creation of the World 467
SECTION II. Wherein Some Positions Are Advanced Concerning a Just Method of Arguing in This Affair from What We Find in Holy Scriptures 469
SECTION III. Particular Texts of Scripture That Show That God's Glory Is an Ultimate End of the Creation 475
SECTION IV. Places of Scripture That Lead Us to Suppose That God Created the World for His Name, to Make His Perfections Known; and That He Made It for His Praise 493
SECTION V. Places of Scripture from Whence It May Be Argued That Communication of Good to the Creature Was One Thing Which God Had in View as an Ultimate End of the Creation of the World 503
SECTION VI. Wherein Is Considered What Is Meant by the “Glory of God” and the “Name of God” in Scripture, When Spoken of as God's End in His Works 512
SECTION VII. Showing That the Ultimate End of the Creation of the World is But One, and What That One End Is 526
Jonathan Edwards [
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