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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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After Solomon's death, when Jeroboam had conspired against the family, and Rehoboam carried himself so that it was a wonder all Israel was not provoked to forsake him, and ten tribes did actually forsake him▪ and […] up Jeroboam in opposition to him; and tho' he was a wicked man, who deserved to have been rejected altogether from being king; yet he •eing the legal ancestor of Christ▪ God kept the kingdom of […] two […], in which the true religion was upheld, in his possess•o•: An• though he had been wicked, and his son Abijam was another […]; yet they being legal ancestors of Christ, God still […] crown in the family, and gave it to Abijam's son Asa. A […] though many of the kings of Judah were very wicked men, and horridly provoked God, as ⟨p. 88⟩particularly Jeho•am, Ahazaiah, Ahaz, Manasseh, and Amon; yet God did not take away the crown from their family, but gave it to their sons, because they were the ancestors of Christ. God's remembering his covenant that he had established with David, is given […] the reason why God did thus, notwithstanding their wicked lives; […] 1 Kings xv 4. speaking there of Abijam's wickedness, it is said, "Nevertheless, for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:" So, Chron. xxi.7. speaking there of Jehoram's great wickedness, it is said, "Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light unto him, and to his sons forever."
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