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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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XI. The next thing I would observe, is God's bringing the people of Israel under the hand of Joshua, and settling them in that land where Christ was to be born, and which was the great type of the heavenly Canaan, which Christ has purchased. This was done by Joshua, who was of Joseph's posterity, and was an eminent type of Christ, and is therefore called the shepherd, the stone of Israel, in Jacob's blessing of Joseph, Gen. xlix.24. Being such a type of Christ, he bore the name of Christ. Joshua and Jesus are the same name, only the one is Hebrew, the other is Greek: And therefore, in the New Testament, which was originally written in G•eek, Joshua is called Jesus, Acts vii.45. "Which also our fathers brought in with Jesus," i. e. Joshua; Heb. iv.8. If Jesus had given them rest▪ he would not have spoken of another day;" […] if Joshua had given them rest.
XI. The next thing I would observe, is God's bringing the people of Israel under the hand of Joshua, and settling them in that land where Christ was to be born, and which was the great type of the heavenly Canaan, which Christ has purchased. This was done by Joshua, who was of Joseph's posterity, and was an eminent type of Christ, and is therefore called the shepherd, the stone of Israel, in Jacob's blessing of Joseph, Gen. xlix.24. Being such a type of Christ, he bore the name of Christ. Joshua and Jesus are the same name, only the one is Hebrew, the other is Greek: And therefore, in the New Testament, which was originally written in G•eek, Joshua is called Jesus, Acts vii.45. "Which also our fathers brought in with Jesus," i. e. Joshua; Heb. iv.8. If Jesus had given them rest▪ he would not have spoken of another day;" 〈…〉 if Jshua had given them rest.