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Front Matter Ethical Writings

Table of Contents CONTENTS CHARITY AND ITS FRUITS 123 TWO DISSERTATIONS 399 DISSERTATION I. CONCERNING THE END FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE WORLD 403 DISSERTATION II. THE NATURE OF TRUE VIRTUE 537 RELATED CORRESPONDENCE 629 APPENDIXES 641

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

CHARITY AND ITS FRUITS TRYON EDWARDS' INTRODUCTION SERMON ONE: LOVE THE SUM OF ALL VIRTUE SERMON TWO: LOVE MORE EXCELLENT THAN EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT SERMON THREE: NOTHING CAN MAKE UP FOR WANT OF SINCERITY IN THE HEART SERMON FOUR: LONG-SUFFERING AND KINDNESS SERMON FIVE: CHARITY CONTRARY TO AN ENVIOUS SPIRIT SERMON SIX: A CHRISTIAN SPIRIT IS A HUMBLE SPIRIT SERMON SEVEN: CHARITY CONTRARY TO A SELFISH SPIRIT SERMON EIGHT: CHARITY CONTRARY TO AN ANGRY SPIRIT SERMON NINE: CHARITY CONTRARY TO A CENSORIOUS SPIRIT SERMON TEN: GRACE TENDS TO HOLY PRACTICE SERMON ELEVEN: UNDERGOING SUFFERINGS A DUTY TO CHRIST SERMON TWELVE: CHRISTIAN GRACES CONCATENATED TOGETHER SERMON THIRTEEN: GRACE NEVER OVERTHROWN SERMON FOURTEEN: DIVINE LOVE ALONE LASTS ETERNALLY SERMON FIFTEEN: HEAVEN IS A WORLD OF LOVE

TWO DISSERTATIONS [HOPKINS' PREFACE] DISSERTATION I: Concerning the End for which God Created the World INTRODUCTION. CONTAINING EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS, AND GENERAL POSITIONS CHAPTER ONE: Wherein Is Considered What Reason Teaches Concerning This Affair SECTION I. SOME THINGS OBSERVED IN GENERAL WHICH REASON DICTATES 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 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 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 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 SECTION I. THE SCRIPTURES REPRESENT GOD AS MAKING HIMSELF HIS OWN LAST END IN THE CREATION OF THE WORLD SECTION II. WHEREIN SOME POSITIONS ARE ADVANCED CONCERNING A JUST METHOD OF ARGUING IN THIS AFFAIR FROM WHAT WE FIND IN HOLY SCRIPTURES SECTION III. PARTICULAR TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE THAT SHOW THAT GOD'S GLORY IS AN ULTIMATE END OF THE CREATION 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 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 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 SECTION VII. SHOWING THAT THE ULTIMATE END OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD IS BUT ONE, AND WHAT THAT ONE END IS

DISSERTATION II: The Nature of True Virtue CHAPTER I. SHOWING WHEREIN THE ESSENCE OF TRUE VIRTUE CONSISTS CHAPTER II. SHOWING HOW THAT LOVE WHEREIN TRUE VIRTUE CONSISTS RESPECTS THE DIVINE BEING AND CREATED BEINGS CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE SECONDARY AND INFERIOR KIND OF BEAUTY CHAPTER IV. OF SELF-LOVE AND ITS VARIOUS INFLUENCE TO CAUSE LOVE TO OTHERS, OR THE CONTRARY CHAPTER V. OF NATURAL CONSCIENCE, AND THE MORAL SENSE CHAPTER VI. OF PARTICULAR INSTINCTS OF NATURE WHICH IN SOME RESPECTS RESEMBLE VIRTUE CHAPTER VII. THE REASON WHY THOSE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED, WHICH HAVE NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE, HAVE YET BY MANY BEEN MISTAKEN FOR TRUE VIRTUE CHAPTER VIII. IN WHAT RESPECTS VIRTUE OR MORAL GOOD IS FOUNDED IN SENTIMENT; AND HOW FAR IT IS FOUNDED IN THE REASON AND NATURE OF THINGS

RELATED CORRESPONDENCE INTRODUCTION by George S. Claghorn UNPUBLISHED LETTER ON ASSURANCE AND PARTICIPATION IN THE DIVINE NATURE

APPENDIXES APPENDIX ONE: JOSEPH BELLAMY'S COPY OF THE CHARITY SERMONS Fragment One: BEGINNING OF SERMON ONE SERMON I: Love the Sum of all Virtue Fragment Two: END OF SERMON ONE Fragment Three: END OF SERMON TWO AND BEGINNING OF SERMON THREE SERMON III : Nothing can make up for the want of Sincerity EXAMPLE ONE EXAMPLE ONE (SERMON ONE) EXAMPLE TWO EXAMPLE TWO (SERMON ONE) EXAMPLE THREE EXAMPLE THREE (SERMON ONE) EXAMPLE THREE (SERMON ONE) EXAMPLE FOUR EXAMPLE FOUR

APPENDIX II JONATHAN EDWARDS ON MORAL SENSE, AND THE SENTIMENTALISTS

APPENDIX III HEAVEN IS A PROGRESSIVE STATE

APPENDIX IV INFUSED VIRTUES IN EDWARDSEAN AND CALVINISTIC CONTEXT

APPENDIX V DEFYING AND ASSISTING THE SPIRIT