THE

WORKS

OF

PRESIDENT EDWARDS:

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOLUME. ΙΙΙ.

CONTAINING,

1. DISSERTATION ON THE END FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE WORLD.

II. DISSERTATION ON THE NATURE OF TRUE VIRTUE.

III. HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION.

IV. 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.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

I. DISSERTATION ON THE END FOR WHICH GOD CRE-

ATED THE WORLD.

IV. Some objections considered

27

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

SECT. 1. Scripture makes God his last end

40

11. Concerning a just method of Arguing

41

III. Particular Texts of Scripture

44

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

59

v. Communication of Good to the creature

66

III. A HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION.

111. Established means of success

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

SECT. 1. Scriptural Representations of this Period

11. How Christ was capacitated for effecting his Purpose

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

323

ib.

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337

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346

357

360

IV. ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE UNION IN PRAYER.

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

PART II. Motives to compliance with what is proposed.

SECT. I. The latter day glory not yet accomplished

460

11. Unspeakably great

468

III. How much Christ prayed &c. for it

471

IV. The whole Creation travails in pain

474

v. Prospects, Encouragements and Examples

477

VI. Motives to excite us to this agreement

486

VII. The beauty and good tendency of this union

492

PART III. Objections answered.

SECT. 1. Such agreement Superstitious, answered

11. Whimsical, &c. answered

IV. The fall of Antichrist not very distant