populate it with human beings. According to Edwards, God’s ultimate purpose in creating the world was to communicate of his own infinite fullness of God; or rather it was his last end, that there might be a glorious and abundant emanation of his infinite fullness of good ad extra, or without himself, and the disposition to communicate himself or diffuse his own fullness, which we must conceive of as being originally in God as a perfection of his nature, was what moved him to create the world. Edwards