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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.
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 histo•y or prophecy.
It is to be observed, that were the scripture is wanting in one of these ways, it is made up in the other. Where scripture-history fails, thee prophecy takes place: so that the account is still carried on, and the chain is not broken, till we come to the very last link of it in the consummation of all things.