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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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X. The next thing I would mention, is God's remarkably preserving the church and nation of the Jews, when they were in imminent danger of being universally destroyed by Haman. We have the story in the book of Esther, with which you are acquainted This series of providence, was very wonderful in preventing this destruction. Esther was doubtless born for this end to be the instrument of this remarkable preservation.
X. The next thing I would mention, is God's remarkably preserving the church and natio• of the Jews, when they were in imminent danger of being universally destroyed by Haman. We have the story in the book of Esther, with which you are ac•uainted This series of providence, was very wonderful in preventing this destruction. Esther was doubtless born for this end to be the instrument of this remarkable preservation.
XI. After this the canon of scripture was further added to in the books of Nehemiah and Esther; the one by Nehemiah himself; and when the others was written by Nehemiah, or Mordecai, or Malachi, is not of importance for us to know, so long as it is one of those books that were always admitted and received as a part of their canon by the Jews, and was among those books that the Jews called their scriptures in Christ's time, and as such was approved by him: For Christ does often in his speeches to the Jews manifestly approve and confirm those books, which amongst them went by the name of the scriptures, as might easily be shown, if there were time for it.
XI. After this the canon of scripture was further added to in the books of Nehemiah and Esther; the one by Nehemiah himself; and when the others was written by Nehemiah, or Mordecai, or Malachi, is not of importance for us to know, so long as it is one of those books that were always admitted and received as a part of their canon by the Jews, and was among those books that the Jews called their sc•iptures in Christ's time, and as such was approved by him: For Christ does often in his speeches to the Jews manifestly approve and confirm those books, which amongst them went by the name of the scriptures, as might easily be shown, if there were time for it.