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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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God's preserving them, not only from the Canaanites, is […] to be taken notice of, but his preserving them from all others that intended mischief to them; as his preserving Jacob and his company, when pursued by Laban, full of rage, and • disposition to overtake him as an enemy: God met him, and rebuked him and said to him. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad." How wonderfully did he also preserve him from Esau his brother, when he came forth with an army, with a full design to cut him off! how did God in answer to his prayer, when he wrestled with Christ at Penuel, wonderfully turn Esau's heart, and make him, instead of meeting him as an enemy with slaughter and destruction, to meet him as a friend and brother, doing him no harm▪
God's preserving them, not only from the Canaanites, is 〈…〉 to be taken notice of, but his preserving them from all others that intended mischief to them; as his preserving Jacob and his company, when pursued by Laban, full of rage, and • disposition to overtake him as an enemy: God met him, and rebuked him and said to him. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad." How wonderfully did he also preserve him from Esau his brother, when he came forth with an army, with a full design to cut him off! how did God in answer to his prayer, when he wrestled with Christ at Penuel, wonderfully turn Esau's heart, and make him, instead of meeting him as an enemy with slaughter and destruction, to meet him as a friend and brother, doing him no harm▪
Thus were this handful, this little root that had the blessing of the Redeemer in it, preserved in the midst of enemies and dangers, which was not unlike to the preserving the ark in the midst of the tempestuous deluge.