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Concerning the End for Which God Created the World
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  • Jonathan Edwards
    Jonathan Edwards
    / Pastorate at Stockbridge

    …completed two posthumously published dissertations: Concerning the End for Which God Created the World and The Nature of True Virtue (1765). God’s glory, not human happiness, is his end in creation; but this is because God in his all-sufficient fullness must communicate himself by the exercise of his attributes. God…

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    …completed two posthumously published dissertations: Concerning the End for Which God Created the World and The Nature of True Virtue (1765). God’s glory, not human happiness, is his end in creation; but this is because God in his all-sufficient fullness must communicate himself by the exercise of his attributes. God…

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