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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
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Besides these four general overturnings of the world, the world was kept in a constant tumult between whiles: and indeed the world was as it were in a continual convulsion through the whole period till Christ came. Before this period, the face of the earth was comparatively in quietness: though they were many great wars among the nations, yet we read of no such mighty and universal convulsions and overturnings as there were in this period. The nations of the world, most of them, had long remained on their lees as it were, without being emptied from vessel to vessel, as is said of Moab, Jer. xlviii.11. Now these great overturnings were because the time of the great Messiah draw nigh. That they were to prepare the way for Christ's coming, is evident by scripture particularly by Ezek. xxi.22. "I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is, and I will give it him." The prophet, by repeating the word overturn three times, has respect to the three overturnings, as in the Revelation, viii.13 The repetition of the word woe three times, signifies three distinct woes; as appears by what follows, ix.12. "One woe is past;" and xi.14. "The second woe is past, and behold the third woe cometh •••ckly."
Besides these four general overturnings of the world, the world was kept in a constant tumult between whiles: and indeed the world was as it were in a continual convulsion through the whole period till Christ came. Before this period, the face of the earth was comparatively in quietness: though they were many great wars among the nations, yet we read of no such mighty and universal convulsions and overturnings as there were in this period. The nations of the world, most of them, had long remained on their lees as it were, without being empted from vessel to vessel, as is said of Moab, Jer. xlviii.11. Now these great overturnings were because the time of the great Messiah draw nigh. That they were to prepare the way for Christ's coming, is evident by scripture particularly by Ez•k. xxi.22. "I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is, and I will give it him." The prophet, by repeating the word overturn three times, has respect to the three overturnings, as in the