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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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But in the midst of this God smote them with blindness; and the next morning the city and the country about it was overthrow• in a most terrible storm of f•re and brimstone; which dreadful destruction, as it was in the sight of the rest of the inhabitants of the land, therefore greatly tended to restrain them from hurting those holy strangers any more; doubtless struck a dread and terror on their minds, and made them afraid to hurt them, and probably was one principal means to restrain them, and preserve the patriarchs. And when that reason is given why the inhabitants of the land did not pursue after Jacob, when they were so provoked by the destruction of the Shechemites, viz. "that the terror of the Lord was upon them▪" it is very probable, that this was a terror ⟨p. 49⟩that was set home upon them. They remembered the amazing destruction of Sodom, and the cities of the slain, that came upon them, upon their abusive treatment of Lot▪ and so curst […] hurt Jacob and his family, though they were so much provokes to it.
But in the midst of this God smote them with blindness; and the next morning the city and the country about it was overthrow• in a most terrible storm of f•re and brimstone; which dreadful destruction, as it was in the sight of the rest of the inhabitants of the land, therefore greatly tended to restrain them from hurting those holy strangers any more; doubtless struck a dread and terror on their minds, and made them afraid to hurt them, and probably was one principal means to restrain them, and preserve the patriarchs. And when that reason is given why the inhabitants of the land did not pursue after Jacob, when they were so provoked by the destruction of the Shechemites, viz. "that the terror of the Lord was upon them▪" it is very probable, that this was a terror ⟨p. 49⟩that was set home upon them. They remembered the amazing destruction of Sodom, and the cities of the slain, that came upon them, upon their abusive treatment of Lot and so curst hurt Jacob and his family, though they were so much provokes to it.