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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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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.
XII. After this the canon of the Old Testament was completed and sealed by Malachi. The manner of his concluding his prophecy seems to imply, that they were to expect no more prophecies, and no more written revelations from God, till Christ should come. For in the last chapter he prophecies of Christ's coming; ver. 2 3. "But unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts." Then we read in ver. ⟨p. 120⟩