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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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Thus these remains of the old inhabitants of Canaan continued unsubdued till David's time; but he wholly subdued them all. Which is agreeable to what St. Stephen observes, Acts vii.45. "Which also our fathers brought in with Jesus (i. e. Joshua) into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers▪ ⟨p. 83⟩unto the days of David." They were till the days of David in driving them out, before they had wholly subdued them. But D•vid entirely brought them under. He subdued the Jebusites, and he subdued the whole nation of the Philistines, and all the rest of the remains of the seven nations of Canaan: 1 Chron. xviii.1. "Now after […] •ame to pass, that David […] the Philistines, and subdued […] and took Gath and her towers out of the hands of the Philistines."
Thus these remains of the old inhabitants of Canaan continued unsubdued till David's time; but he wholly subdued them all. Which is agreeable to what St. Stephen observes, Acts vii.45. "Which also our fathers brought in with Jesus (i. e. Joshua) into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers▪ ⟨p. 83⟩unto the days of David." They were till the days of David in driving them out, before they had wholly subdued them. But D•vid ••tirely brought them under. He subdued the Jebusites, and he subdued the whole nation of the Philistines, and all the rest of the remains of the seven nations of Canaan: 1 Chron. xviii.1. "Now after 〈…〉 •ame to pass, that David the Philistines, and subdued and took Gath and her towers out of the hands of the Philistines."