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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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Though this generation had a much greater trial, than the generation of their fathers had before they came to Kadesh-Barnea, yet they never murmured against God in any wise, as their fathers had done: But their trials had a contrary effect upon them, to awaken them, convince, and humble them, and fit them for great mercy. They were awakened by those awful judgments of God that he inflicted on their fathers, whereby their carcasses fell in the wilderness. And God poured out his spirit with those awakening providenc•• ⟨p. 65⟩towards their fathers, and their own travel in the wilderness, and the word preached to them by Moses; hereby they were greatly awakened, and made to see the badness of their own hearts, and were humble•, and at length multitudes of them savingly converted; as Deut. viii 2 3. "And thou shalt remember the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee and to prove thee, and to know what was thine heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, &c. A•d, verse 15. "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness—that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee▪ to do thee good at thy latter end." And therefore it is said, Hos. xiii.5. "I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought." God allured them, and brought them into that wilderness, and spake comfortably to them, as it was foretold that he would do afterwards, Hos. ii.14.
Though this generation had a much greater trial, than the generation of their fathers had before they came to Kadesh-Barnea, yet they never murmured against God in any wise, as their fathers had done: But their trials had a contrary effect upon them, to awaken them, convince, and humble them, and fit them for great mercy. They were awakened by those awful judgments of God that he inflicted on their fathers, whereby their carcasses fell in the wilderness. And God poured out his spirit with those awakening providenc••