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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
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.
CONTENTS.
General introduction, Page: 6. PERIOD I. From the fall to the incarnation of Christ, Page: 18 PART I. From the fall to the flood, •9. PART II. From the flood to the calling of Abraham, Page: 34. PART III. From the calling of Abraham to Moses, Page: 41. PART IV. From Moses to David, Page: 53. PART V. From David to the Babylonish captivity, Page: 73. PART VI. From the Babylonish captivity to the coming of Christ, Page: 100. IMPROVEMENT. Inspiration, excellency, and usefulness of the books of the Old Testament, &c. Page: 118. PERIOD II. The time of Christ's humiliation, Page: 1•7. PART I. Of Christ's becoming incarnate to capacitate himself for the purchase of redemption, Page: 138 PART II. Of the purchase itself, Page: 144▪ SECT. I. What is intended by Christ's purchasing redemption, Page: 145. SECT. II. General observations concerning those things by which this purchase was made, Page: 145. ⟨p. vii⟩SECT. III. The obedience and sufferings by which Christ purchased redemption particularly considered, Page: 148. IMPROVEMENT. SECT. I. Reproof of unbelief, self righteousness▪ and careless neglect of salvation, Page: 163 SECT. II. Encouragement to burdened souls to trust in Christ for salvation, Page: 170 PERIOD. III. From Christ's resurrection to the end of the world, Page: 171 INTRODUCTION. General observations concerning this period▪ Page: 173 PART I. Of th•se things whereby Christ was put into an immediate capacity for accomplishing the ends of his purchase, Page: 181 PART II. How Christ accomplished this success, Page: 184 SECT. I. How this success is accomplished by God's grace here, Page: 184 § I. The means of this success established after Christ's resurrection. Page: 184 § II. The success itself. Page: 190 FIRST, In the suffering state of the church from the resurrection of Christ to the fall of Antichrist Page: 190 I. From Christ's resurrection till the destruction of Jerusalem, Page: 192 II. From the destruction of Jerusalem to the destruction of the Heathen empire in the time of Constantine the Great, Page: 200 INFERENCE, Truth of Christianity argued from the success of the gospel in both these periods, Page: 208 III. Success of redemption from th time of Constantine the Great till the fall of Antichrist, Page: 211 1st, From Constantine till the rise of Antichrist, Page: 219 2dly, From the rise of Antichrist till the Reformation, Page: