creation of the world, which is simply and absolutely good and
6. Whatsoever thing is actually the effect or consequence of the creation of the world, which is simply and absolutely good and valuable in itself, that thing is an ultimate end of God's creating the world. We see that it is a good that God aimed at by the creation of the world; because he has actually attained it by that means. This is an evidence that he intended to attain, or aimed at it. For we may justly infer what God intends by what he actually does, because he does nothing inadvertently, or without design. But whatsoever God intends to attain from a value for it, or in other words, whatever he aims at in his actions and works, that he values; he seeks that thing in those acts and works. Because, for an agent to intend to attain something he values by means he uses is the same thing as to seek it by those means. And this is the same as to make that thing his end in those means. Now it being by the supposition what God values ultimately, it must therefore, by the preceding position, be aimed at by God as an ultimate end of creating the world.
SECTION II.
SOME FARTHER OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THOSE THINGS WHICH REASON LEADS US TO SUPPOSE GOD AIMED
AT IN THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, SHOWING PARTICULARLY WHAT THINGS THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY GOOD
ARE ACTUALLY THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE CREATION OF
THE WORLD
FROM what was last observed it seems to be the most proper and just way of proceeding, as we would see what light reason will give us