A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World

A
DISSERTATION
CONCERNING
THE END FOR WHICH GOD MADE THE WORLD

Contents

• Preface by the First Editor
• Introduction, Explanation of Terms
• Chapter I. What Reason Dictates Concerning This Affair
  • Section I. Some Things Observed in General, Which Reason Dictates
  • Section II. Further Observations concerning What Reason Leads Us to Suppose God Aimed At
  • Section III. How God Manifests a Supreme and Ultimate Regard to Himself in All His Works
  • Section IV. Some Objections Considered
• Chapter II. What May Be Learned from the Holy Scriptures
  • Section I. The Scriptures Represent God as Making Himself His Own Last End in the Creation
  • Section II. Concerning a Just Method of Arguing from the Holy Scriptures
  • Section III. Particular Texts of Scripture That Show God’s Glory Is an Ultimate End of Creation
  • Section IV. Places of Scripture Showing God Created the World for His Name and Praise
  • Section V. Communication of Good to the Creature as an Ultimate End of Creation
  • Section VI. What Is Meant by the Glory of God and the Name of God in Scripture
  • Section VII. Showing That the Ultimate End of the Creation of the World Is but One

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