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.

HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION.

AN ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE EXPLICIT AGREEMENt and visiblE UNION

OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN EXTRAORDINARY PRAYER.
V. 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

Introduction--Explanation of Terms

CHAP. I. What Reason dictates concerning this affair.

SECT. 1. The general dictates of reason

II. 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

VIRTUE.

CHAP. I. The essence of True Virtue

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

II. DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE NATURE OF TRUE

II. How Love respects different beings

III. Concerning the Secondary Beauty

IV. Of Self-love and its influence

V. Natural Conscience and the Moral Sense

VI. Of particular Instincts of Nature

VII. The reason of many Mistakes

VIII. Whether Virtue be founded in Sentiment

III. A HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION.

General Introduction

PERIOD I. From the Fall to the Incarnation

PART I. From the Fall to the Flood

II. From the Flood to the calling of Abraham

III. From Abraham to Moses

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V. From David to the Babylonish Captivity

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