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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 3: From the calling of Abraham to Moses.
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In this renewal of the covenant of grace with Abraham, several particulars concerning that covenant were revealed more fully […] ever had been before; not only that Christ was to be of Abraham's seed, but also, the calling of the Gentiles, and the bringing all nations into the church, that all the families of the earth were to be blessed, was now made known. And then the great condition of the covenant of grace, which is faith, was now more fully made known. Gen. xv.5.6 "And he said unto him, So shall thy seed he. And Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." Which is much taken notice of in the New Testament as that whence Abraham was called the father of them that believe.
In this renewal of the covenant of grace with Abraham, several particulars concerning that covenant were revealed more fully 〈…〉 ever had been before; not only that Christ was to be of Abraham's seed, but also, the calling of the Gentiles, and the bringing all nations into the church, that all the families of the earth were to be blessed, was now made known. And then the great condition of the covenant of grace, which is faith, was now more fully made known. Gen. xv.5.6 "And he said unto him, So shall thy seed he. And Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." Which is much taken notice of in the New Testament as that whence Abraham was called the father of them that believe.
As there was now a further revelation of the covenant of grace, so there was a further confirmation of it by seals and pledges, the• ever had been before; as, particularly, God did now institute a certain sacrament, to be a steady seal of this covenant in the visible church, till Christ should come▪ viz. circumcision. Circumcision was a seal of this covenant of grace, as appears by the first institution, as we have an account of it in the 17th chapter of Genesis. It there appears to be a seal of that covenant by which God promised to make Abraham a father of many nations, as appears by the 5th verse, compared with the 9th and 10th verses. We are expressly taught, that it was a seal of the righteousness of faith,