V.

THE

WORKS

OF

PRESIDENT EDWARDS:

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOLUME. III.

1.

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

II.
III. HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION.

IV. 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.

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CONTAINING,

NEW YORK:

G. & C. & H. CARVILL.

1830.

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

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

II. 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

11. 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

VIRTUE.

CHAP. I. The essence of True Virtue

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

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II. From the Flood to the calling of Abraham

III. From Abraham to Moses

IV. From Moses to David

V. From David to the Babylonish Captivity

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PART VI. From the Captivity to Christ

VII. Improvement of the First Period

PERIOD II. From Christ's Incarnation to his Resurrection

PART. I. Of Christ's Incarnation

II. The Purchase of Redemption

III. Improvement of the Second Period

PERIOD III. From Christ's Resurrection to the End of the World

SECT. I. Scriptural Representations of this Period

11. How Christ was capacitated for effecting his Purpose

III. Established means of success.

IV. How the success was carried on

PART I. To the Destruction of Jerusalem

II. To the time of Constantine

III. To the Rise of Antichrist

IV. To the Reformation

V. To the present Time

VI. Improvement of past Events

VII. To the Fall of Antichrist

VIII. To the End of Time

IX. The General Judgment

X. Improvement of the Whole

IV. ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE UNION IN PRAYER.

PART I. The Text opened and an account of the affair proposed.

SECT. 1. Explanatory Introduction

II. Observations on the Text

III. An Account of the concert for prayer

IV. A Memorial from Scotland

PART II. Motives to compliance with what is proposed.

SECT. I. The latter day glory not yet accomplished

11. Unspeakably great

III. How much Christ prayed &c. for it

IV. The whole Creation travails in pain

v. Prospects, Encouragements and Examples

VI. Motives to excite us to this agreement

VII. The beauty and good tendency of this union

Preface

PART III. Objections answered.

SECT. 1. Such agreement Superstitious, answered

II. Whimsical, &c. answered

III. Not premature

IV. The fall of Antichrist not very distant

v. Objections from Novelty, answered

VI. Concluding considerations

SECT. I. Negative Signs

II. Positive Signs

III. Practical Inferences

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