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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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X The canon of scripture seems at or after the close of David's reign to be added to by the prophets Nathan and God. It appears pro••ble by the scriptures, that they carried on […] history of the two books of Samuel from the place where Samuel left it, and finished it. These two books of Samuel seem to be the book that in scripture is called the book of Samuel the seer, and Nathan the prophet, and G•d the seer, as in 1 Chron. xxix 2• "N•w the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer."
X The canon of scripture seems at or after the close of David's reign to be added to by the prophets Nathan and God. It appears pro••ble by the scriptures, that they carried on 〈…〉 history of the two books of Samuel from the place where Samuel left it, and finished it. These two books of Samuel seem to be the book that in scripture is called the book of Samuel the seer, and Nathan the prophet, and G•d the seer, as in 1 Chron. xxix 2• "N•w the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer."
XI. The next thing I would take notice of, is God's wonderfully continuing the kingdom of his visible people in the line of Christ's legal ancestors, as long as they remained an independent kingdom. Thus it was without any interruption worth taking notice. Indeed the kingdom of all the tribes of Israel was not kept in that line; but the dominion of that part of Israel in which the true worship of God was upheld, and so of that part that were God's visible people, was always kept in the family of David, as long as there was any such thing as an independent king of Israel; according to his promise to David: And not only in the family of David but always in that part of David's posterity that was the lie whence Christ was legally descended; so that the very person th was Christ's legal ancestor was always in the throne, excepting Jhoaaz who reigned three months, and Zedekiah; as you may see in Matthew's genealogy of Christ.