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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
BUT before I enter upon particulars, I would observe in three things wherein this period is distinguished from the preceding periods of the times of the Old Testament.
BUT before I enter upon particulars, I would observe in three things wherein this period is distinguished from the prec•ding periods of the times of the Old Testament.
1. Though we have no account of a great part of this period in the scripture-history, yet the events of this period are more the subject of scripture-prophecy, than any of the preceding periods. There are two ways wherein the scripture gives account of the events by which the work of redemption is carried on; one is by history, and another is by prophecy: and in one or the other of these way• we have contained in the scriptures an account how the work of redemption is carried on from the beginning to the end. Although the […] do not contain a p••per history of the whole, yet there is contained the whole chain of great events by which this aff••• hath been carried on from the foundation, soon after the […] of man to the finishing […] it at the end of the world, either in history or prophecy.
1. Though we have no account of a great part of this period in the scripture-history, yet the events of this period are more the subject of scripture-prophecy, than any of the preceding periods. There are two ways wherein the scripture gives account of the events by which the work of redemption is carried on; one is by history, and another is by prophecy: and in one or the other of these way• we have contained in the scriptures an account how the work of redemption is carried on from the beginning to the end. Although the 〈…〉 do not contain a p••per history of the whole, yet there is contained the whole chain of great events by which this aff hath been carried on from the foundation, soon after the of man to the finishing it at the end of the world, either in histoy or prophecy.