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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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Thus did Christ show his great love to his elect, that he would make the course of nature, in the frame of the world, that he had made, and that he governed, to give place to their happiness and prosperity; and showed that the sun and moon, and all things, visible and invisible, were theirs by his purchase. At the same time, Christ fought as the Captain of their host, and cast down great hail stones upon their enemies, by which more were slain than by the sword of the children of Israel. After this Christ gave the people a mighty victory over a yet greater army in the northern part of the land, that were gathered together at the waters of Merom, as the sand of the sea-shore, as it is said Josh. xi.4.
Thus God gave the people whence Christ was to proceed, the land where he was to be born, and live, and preach, and work miracles, and die, and rise again, whence he was to ascend into heaven, as the land which was a great type of heaven: Which is another thing whereby a great advance was made in the affair of redemption.
XII. Another thing that God did towards carrying on this affair, was his actually setting up his stated worship among the people, as it had been before instituted in the wilderness. This worship was appointed at Mount-Sinai, wholly in subserviency to this great affair of redemption. It was to make way for the coming of Christ; and the innumerable ceremonial observance• of it were typical of him and his redemption. This worship was chiefly instituted at Mount Sinai; but it was gradually set up in practice. It was partly set up in the wilderness, were the tabernacle and its vessels were made; but there were many parts of their instituted worship that could not be observed in the wilderness, by reason of their unsettled▪ itinerant state there: and then there were many precepts that respect the land of Canaan, and their cities and places of habitation there: which therefore could not be put in practice, till they came into that land. But now, when this was brought to pass, God see up his tabernacle in the midst of his people as he had before promised them. Lev xxvi.11. "I will st up my tabernacle among you" The tabernacle was set up at Shiloh.