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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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1. Explain the terms made use of in the doctrine,—and,
2. Show what those things are that are designed to be accomplished by this great work of God.
First, I would show in what sense the terms of the doctrine are used.—And, 1. I would show how I would be understood when I use the word redemption;—and, 2. how I would be understood when I say, this work is a work of God carried on from the fall of man to the end of the world.
I. I would show how I would be understood when I use the word redemption.—Here it may be observed▪ that the work of redemption is sometimes understood in a mere limited sense, for the purchase of salvation; for so the word strictly signifies, a purchase of deliverance; and if we take the word in this restrained sense, the work of redemption was not so long in doing. But it was begun and finished with Christ's humiliation. It was all wrought while Christ was upon earth. It was begun with Christ's incarnation, and carried on through' Christ's life, and finished with his death, or the time of his remaining under the power of death, which ended in his resurrection: and so we say, that the day of Christ's resurrection is the day when Christ finished the work of redemption,