The beginning of creation was in Iraq and the end of creation will be here as well.
The Rhode Island putdowns soon started, with Cotton Mather exclaiming about "the sewer of New England" and "the fag end of Creation".
Before the end of the creative act or sometime soon after the end of creation, the created order or the intent of the creator deity is thwarted by some fault of one of the creatures.
At the other end of creation, a really big telescope will be able to study what happened about 11 billion or 12 billion years ago when the universe was undergoing a rush of construction.
End of Creation reconciles these claims.
The proposed history would have been the culmination of the project begun in True Virtue and End of Creation.
The four "parts" are thus "one thing, in a variety of views and relations" (End of Creation, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 527).
(End of Creation, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 447) It follows that God must diffuse his own fullness, i. e., God must create.
End of Creation contends both that God's perfections include "a propensity of nature to diffuse of his own fullness" and that it isn't "possible for him to be hindered in the exercise of his goodness and his other perfections in their proper effect".
As the only true substance and only true cause, God is the "head" of the system of beings, its "chief part," an absolute sovereign whose power and perfection are so great that "all other beings are as nothing to him, and all other excellency…as nothing and less than nothing,…in comparison of his" (End of Creation, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 451).
