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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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Again, another thing that was lost that the Jews had before, was the Urim and Thummim. This is evident by Ezra, ii.63. "And the Ti•shat•• said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand up a priest with Urim and Thummim." we have no account that this was ever restored; but the ancient writings of the Jews say the contrary. What this Urim and Thummim was, I shall not now enquire; but only observe, that it was something by which the high priest enquired of God, and received immediate […] from him, or by which God gave forth immediate oracles on particular occasions. This was now withdrawn, the time approaching when Christ, the antetype of the Urim and Thummim, the great word and oracle of God, was to come.
Again, another thing that was lost that the Jews had before, was the Urim and Thummim. This is evident by Ezra, ii.63. "And the Ti•shat•• said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand up a priest with Urim and Thummim." we have no account that this was ever restored; but the ancient writings of the Jews say the contrary. What this Urim and Thummim was, I shall not now enquire; but only observe, that it was something by which the high priest enquired of God, and received immediate 〈…〉 from him, or by which God gave forth immediate oracles on particular occasions. This was now withdrawn, the time approaching when Christ, the antetype of the Urim and Thummim, the great word and oracle of God, was to come.
Another t•ing that the ancient Jews say was wanting in the second temple, was the Sh•chinah, or cloud of glory over the mercy-seat. This was promised to be in the tabernacle: