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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 David as well as Moses was made like to Christ the […] of David, in this respect, that by him God gave a new ecclesiastical establishment, and new institutions of worship. David did not only add to the institutions of Moses, but by those additions he abolished some of the old constitutions of Moses that had been in force till that time; particularly those laws of Moses that appointed the business of the Levites, which we have in the 3d and 4th chapters of Numbers, which very much consisted in their charge of the several parts and utensils of the tabernacle, there assigned them, and in carrying those several parts of the tabernacle. But those laws were now abolished by David; and they were no more to carry those things, as they had been used to do till David's time. But David appointed them to other work instead of it; see 1 Chron. xxiii.26. "And also unto the Levites, they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof:" A sure evidence that […] c•••monial law given by Moses is not perpetual, as the Jews supposed: but might be wholly abolished by Christ: for i• David, a type of the Messiah, might abolish the law of Moses in part, much more might the Messiah himself abolish the whole.
Thus David as well as Moses was made like to Christ the 〈…〉 of David, in this respect, that by him God gave a new ecc•esiastical establishment, and new institutions of worship. David did not only add to the institutions of Moses, but by those additions he abolished some of the old •onstitutions of Moses that had been in force till that time; particularly those laws of Moses that appointed the business of the Levites, which we have in the 3d and 4th chapters of Numbers, which very much consisted in their charge of the several parts and utensils of the tabernacle, there assign'd them, and in carrying those several parts of the tabernacle. But those laws were now abolished by David; and they were no more to carry those things, as they had been used to do till David's time. But David appointed them to other work instead of it; see 1 Chron. xxiii.26. "And also unto the Levites, they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof:" A sure evidence that cmonial law given by Moses is not perpetual, as the Jews supposed: but might be wholly abolished by Christ: for i David, a type of the Messiah, might abolish the law of Moses in part, much more might the Messiah himself abolish the whole.