A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

We have seen how other things came to an end one after another▪ how states, and kingdoms, and empires, one after another, fell and came to nothing, even the greatest and strongest of them; we have seen how the world has been often overturned, and will be more remarkably overturned than ever it has been yet; we have seen how the world comes to an end, how it was first destroyed by water, and how at last it shall be utterly destroyed by fire: but yet God remains the same through all ages. He was before the beginning of this course of things, and he will be after the end of them▪ agreeable to Psal. cii.25.26.—Thus God is he that is, and that was, and that is to come.

We have seen, in a variety of instances, how all other gods perish: we have seen how the ancient gods of the Heathen in the nations abou• Canaan, and throughout the Roman empire, are all destroyed▪ and their worship long since overthrown; we have heard how Antichrist, who has called himself a god on earth, and how Mahomet, who claims religious honours, and how all the gods of the Heathen through the world, will come to an end; and how Satan, the great dragon, that old serpent, who has set up himself as god of this world, will be cast into the lake of fire, there to suffer his complete punishment: but Jehovah remains, and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and of his dominion there is no end. We have seen what mighty changes there have been in the world; but God is unchangeable, "the same yesterday, to day, and for ever."

We have seen, in a variety of instances, how all other gods perish: we have seen how the ancient gods of the Heathen in the nations abou• Canaan, and throughout the Roman empire, are all destroyed▪ and their worship long since overthrown; we have heard how Antichrist, who has called himself a god on earth, and how Mahomet, who claims religious honors, and how all the gods of the Heathen through the world, will come to an end; and how Satan, the great dragon, that old serpent, who has set up himself as god of this world, will be cast into the lake of fire, there to suffer his complete punishment: but Jehovah remains, and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and of his dominion there is no end. We have seen what mighty changes there have been in the world; but God is unchangeable, "the same yesterday, to day, and for ever."