The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

Corol. on the former on this subject [No. gg]. Since the world would be altogether good for nothing without intelligent beings, so intelligent beings would be altogether good for nothing except to contemplate the Creator. Hence we learn that devotion, and not mutual love, charity, justice, beneficence, etc. isMS: "are." the highest end of man, and devotion is his principal business. For all justice, beneficence, etc. are good for nothing without it, are to no purpose at all. For those duties are only for the advancement of the great business, to assist mutually each other to it.