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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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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 li•e whence Christ was legally descended; so that the very person th•• was Christ's legal ancestor was always in the throne, excepting J•hoa•az▪ who reigned three months, and Zedekiah; as you may see in Matthew's genealogy of Christ.
XI. The next thing I w•uld take notice of, is God's wonderfully continuing the kingdom of his vis•ble people in the line of Christ's legal ancestors, as long as they remained an independent kingdom. Thus it was without any inte•ruption 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 worsh•p 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 li•e whence Christ was legally descended; so that the very person th•• was Christ's legal ancestor was always in the throne, excepting J•hoaaz who reigned three months, and Zedekiah; as you may see in Matthew's genealogy of Christ.