THE

WORKS

OF

PRESIDENT EDWARDS.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

CONTAINING,

I. DISSERTATION ON THE END FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE WORLD.
DISSERTATION ON THE NATURE OF TRUE VIRTUE.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION.

AN ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE EXPLICIT agreement and visible UNION

OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN EXTRAORDINARY PRAYER.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS OF A WORK OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY S. CONVERSE.
1829.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

I. DISSERTATION ON THE END FOR WHICH GOD CRE-

ATED THE WORLD.

Preface

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Introduction--Explanation of Terms

CHAP. I. What Reason dictates concerning this affair.

SECT. 1. The general dictates of reason

JI. What reason supposes

111. How God regards himself

IV. Some objections considered

CHAP. II. What may be learned from the Holy Scriptures.

SECT. I. Scripture makes God his last end

II. Concerning a just method of Arguing

III. Particular Texts of Scripture

IV. God created the World for his name, &c.

v. Communication of Good to the creature

VI. What is meant by the glory of God, &c.

VII. God's last end is but one

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