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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 4: From Moses to David.
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III. The next thing that I shall take notice of here, what was done towards the work of redemption, is God's giving the moral law in so awful a manner at Mount Sinai. This was another new thing that God did, a new step taken in this great affair. Deut. iv.33. "Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?" And it was a great thing that God did towards this work, and that whether we consider it as delivered as a new exhibition of the covenant of works, or given as a rule of life.
III. The next thing that I shall take notice of here, what was done towards the work of •edemption, is God's giving the moral law in so awful a manner at Mount Sinai. This was another new thing that God did, a new step taken in this great affair. Deut. iv.33. "Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?" And it was a great thing that God did towards this work, and that whether we consider it as delivered as a new exhibition of the covenant of works, or given as a rule of life.
The covenant of works was here exhibited to be as a school-master to lead to Christ, not only for the use of that nation in the ages of the Old Testament, but for the use of God's church throughout all ages of the world; as an instrument that the great redeemer makes use of to convince men of their sin and misery, and helpless state, and of God's awful and tremendous majesty and justice as a lawgiver, and so to make men sensible of the necessity of Christ as a saviour. The work of redemption▪ in its saving effect on mens souls, in all the progress of it to the end of it, is not carried on without the use of this law that was now delivered at Sinai.
The covenant of works was here exhibited to be as a school-master to lead to Christ, not only for the use of that nation in the ages of the Old Testament, but for the use of God's church throughout all ages of the world; as an instrument that the great redeemer makes use of to convince men of their sin and misery, and helpless state, and of God's awful and tremenduous majesty and justice as a lawgiver, and so to make men sensible of the necessty of Christ as a saviour. The work of redemption in its saving effect on mens souls, in all the progress of it to the end of it, is not carried on without the use of this law that was now delivered at Sinai.