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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. › Period 1 › Part 2: From the flood to the calling of Abraham.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the second chapter of Isaiah, where the prophet is foretelling God's setting up the kingdom of Christ in the world, he foretell• how God will, in order to it, bring down the haughtiness of men, and how the day of the Lord shall be on every high tower, and ⟨p. 39⟩upon every f•••ed well, &c. Christ kingdom is established, by bringing down every high thing to ma•• way for it, 2 Cor. 2.4.5. "For the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds, casting •own imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against •he knowledge of God." What is done in a particular soul, to make way for the setting up of Christ's kingdom, is to destroy Babel in that soul.
They intended to have built Babel up to heaven. That building that is the subject we are upon, is a building that is intended to be built so high, its top shall reach to heaven indeed, as it will to the highest heavens at the end of the world, when it shall be finished: and therefore God would not suffer the building of his enemies, that they designed to build up to heaven in opposition to it, to prosper. If they had gone on and prospered in building that city and tower, it might have kept the world of wicked men, the enemies of the church, together, as that was their design. They might have remained united in one vast, powerful city; and so they might have been too powerful for the city of God, and quite swallowed it up.