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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 this was now in a great measure forgotten; now therefore God was pleased again, in a most amazing manner to show his wrath against sin, in the destruction of these cities; which was […] such a manner as to be the liveliest image of hell of any thing that ever had been; and therefore the apostle J•de says, "They suffer the vengeance of eternal fire," Jude 7. God rained storms of fire and brimstone upon them. The way that they were destroyed probably was by thick flashes of lightning. The st•eams of brimstone were so thick as to bu•• up all these cities: so that they perished in the flames of divine ••ath. By this might he seen the dreadful wrath of God against the ungodliness and unrighteousness o• men; which tended to show men the necessity of redemption, and so to promote that great work.
But this was now in a great me•sure forgotten; now therefore God was pleased again, in a most amazing manner to show his wrath against sin, in the destruction of these cities; which was 〈…〉 such a manner as to be the liveliest •mage of hell of any thing that ever had been; and therefore the apostle J•de says, "They suffer the vengeance of eternal fire," Jude 7. God rained storms of fire and brimstone upon them. The way that they were destroyed probably was by thick flashes of lightning. The st•eams of brimstone were so thick as to bu•• up all these cities: so that they perished in the flames of divine ••ath. By this might he seen the dread•ul wrath of God against the ungodliness and unrighteousness o• men; which tended to show men the necessity of redemption, and so to promote that great work.