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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.
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, the•e 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.
Accordingly it is observable of this period or space of time that we are upon, that though it is so much less the subject of scripture-history, than most of the preceding periods, so that there is above •our hundred years of it that the scriptures gives us no history of; ⟨p. 101⟩yet the events of this period are more the subject of scripture-prophecy, than the events of all the preceding periods put together. Most of those remarkable prophecies of the book of Daniel do refer to events that were accomplished in this period: so most of those prophecies of Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, against Babylon, and Tyre, and against Egypt, and many other nations, were fulfilled in this period.
Accordingly it is observable of this period or space of time that we are upon, that though it is so much less the subject of scripture-history, than most of the preceding periods, so that there is above •our hundred years of it that the scriptures gives us no history of; ⟨p. 101⟩yet the events of this period are more the subject of scripture-prophecy, than the events of all the preceding periods put together. Most of those remarkable prophecies of the book of Daniel do refer to events that were accomplished in this period: so most of those prophecies of Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, against Babylon, and Tyrus, and against Egypt, and many other nations, were fulfilled in this period.