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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 5: From David to the Babylonish captivity.
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V. The next thing I would take notice of, is God's actually exalting David to the throne of Israel, notwithstanding all the opposition made to it. God was determined to do it, and he made every thing give place that stood in the way of it. He removed Saul and his •ons out of the way; and first set David over the tribe of Judah; and then, having removed […], set him over all Israel. Thus did God fulfil his word to David. He took him from the sheep cote, and made him king over his people Israel, Psal. lxxxiii.70.71. And now the throne of Israel was established in that family in which it was to continue for ever, even for ever and ever.
V. The next thing I would take notice of, is God's actually exalting David to the throne of Israel, notwithstanding all the opposition made to it. God was determined to do it, and he made every thing give place that stood in the way of it. He removed Saul and his •ons out of the way; and first set David over the tribe of Judah; and then, having removed 〈…〉, set him over all Israel. Thus did God fulfil his word to David. He took him from the sheep cote, and made him king over his people Israel, Psal. lxxxiii.70.71. And now the throne of Israel was established in that family in which it was to continue for ever, even for ever and ever.
VI. Now first it was that God proceeded to choose a particular city out of all the tribes of Israel to place his name there. There is several times mention made in the law of Moses, of the children of Israel's bringing their oblations to the place which God should choose; as Deut. xii.5.6.7. and so in many other places; but God had never proceeded to do it till now. The tabernacle and ark were never fixed, but sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another; but now God proceeded to choose Jerusalem. The city of Jerusalem was never thoroughly conquered, or taken out of the hands of the Jebusites, till David's time. It is said in