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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.
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.
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 necess•ty 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.
It was given in an awful manner, with a terrible voice, exceeding loud an awful, so that all the people that were in the camp trembled; and Moses himself, though so intimate a friend of God▪ yet said, I exceedingly fear and quake; the voice being accompanied with thunders and lightnings, the mountain burning with fire to the midst of heaven, and the earth itself shaking and trembling; to make all sensible how great that authority, power, and justice was, that stood engaged to exact the fulfilment of this law, and to see it fully executed; and how strictly God would require the fulfilment: and how terrible his wrath would be against every breaker of it; that men being sensible of those things, might have a thorough trial of themselves, and might pov their own hearts, and know how impossible it is for them to have salvation by the works of the law, and might see the absolute necessity they stood in of a mediator.