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A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…
A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of divinity, in a method entirely new. / By the late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New Jersey[.]
Boston: printed by Draper & Folsom, 1782
A HISTORY Of the WORK of REDEMPTION. › IMPROVEMENT OF THE WHOLE.
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Now there is nothing else that informs us what this scheme and design of God in his works is, but only the holy scriptures. Nothing else pretends to set in view the whole […] of God's w••ks of providence from beginning to end and to inform us how all things were from God at first, and for what end they are […] how they •ere ordered from the beginning and how they will proceed •o the end of the […] what they will come to at last, and how then all […] Nothing else but the scriptures has any […] of regular scheme or drift in those revolutions when God orders ⟨p. 290⟩from age to age. Nothing else pretends to show▪ what God would by the things which he has done, and in doing, and will do; what he seeks and intends by them. Nothing else pretends to show, with any distinctness or certainty, how the world began at first, or to tell us the original of things. Nothing but the scriptures sets forth how God governed the world from the beginning of the generations of men upon earth, in an orderly history; and nothing else se•• before us how he will govern it to the end, by an orderly prophecy of future events; agreeable to the challenge which God makes to the gods, and prophets, and teachers of the Heathen, in Is. xli.22.23. "Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things what they be, that we may consider them, and know the […] end of them; or declare us things for to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods."
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