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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.
The generations of mankind on the earth did not begin till after the fall. The beginning of the posterity of our first parents was after the fall; for all their posterity, by ordinary generation, are partakers of the fall, and of the corruption of nature tha• followed from it; and these generations, by which the human race i• propagated, shall continue to the end of the world: so these two are the limits of the generations of men on the earth; the fall of man, the beginning; and of the end of the world, or the day of judgement, the end. The same are the limits of the work of redemption as to those progressive works of God, by which that redemption is brought about and accomplished, tho' not as to the fruits of it; for they, as was said before, shall be to all eternity.
The work of redemption and the work of salvation are the same thing. What is sometimes in scripture c•lled God's saving his people, is in other places called his redeeming them. So Christ is called both the Saviour and the Redeemer of his people.
BEFORE entering on the proposed History of the Work of Redemption, I would,