The Nature of True Virtue

work by Edwards

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  • Jonathan Edwards
    In Jonathan Edwards: Pastorate at Stockbridge

    …God Created the World and The Nature of True Virtue (1765). God’s glory, not human happiness, is his end in creation; but this is because God in his all-sufficient fullness must communicate himself by the exercise of his attributes. God can be said to aim at the creature’s happiness, but…

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