free, being produced solely by the rational, unbound will of the man himself. This Plan must be sovereign, since God alone exists when he forms it, and all things that afterward exist are made what they are by the Plan itself. And for the same reason the single great end of the Plan is the glory of God himself; that is, the manifestation of his inherent excellence by the exercise of his perfections. If the glory of God is the chief end of the Plan, it must, of course, be the chief end of every part
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