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This volume contains two major works of Jonathan Edwards: an unpublished text of a series of sermons he preached in 1738, known as Charity and Its Fruits, and his Two Dissertations: I. Concerning the End for Which God Created the World and II. On the Nature of True Virtue, published posthumously in 1765. Together these writings set out the principles of Edwards’ ethical reflections. The text of...

in particular.4 “For this, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, viz. thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” And so again Gal. 5:14, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” The apostle [James] seems to teach the same thing in Jas. 2:8, “If ye fulfill the royal law
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