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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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I now proceed to show how the work of redemption was carried on through the remaining time that were before Christ: in which we have not that thread of scripture history to guide us that we have had hitherto; but have these three things to guide us, viz. the prophecies of the Old Testament, human histories of those times, and some occasional mention made, and some evidence given, of some things which happened in those times, in the New Testament. Therefore,
I now proceed to show how the work of redemption was carried on through the remaining time that were before Christ: in which we have not that thread of scripture history to guide us that we have had hitherto; but have these three things to guide us, viz. the prophecies of the Old Testament, human histories of those times, and some occasional mention made, and some ••idence given, of some things which happend in those times, in the New Testament. Therefore,
XIV. The next particular that I shall mention under this period, is the destruction of the Persian empire, and sitting up of the Grecian empire by Alexander. This came to pass about sixty or seventy years after the times wherein the prophet Malachi is supposed to have prophesied, and about three hundred and thirty years before Christ. This was the third overturning of the world that came to pass in this period, and was greater and more remarkable than either of the foregoing. It was very remarkable on account of the suddenness of that conquest of the world which Alexander made, and the greatness •f the empire which he set up, which much exceeded all the foregoing in its extent.
XIV. The next particular that I shall mention under this period, is the destruction of the Pers•an empire, and sitting up of the Grecian empire by Alexander. This came to pass about sixty or seventy years after the times wherein the prophet Malachi is supposed to have prophesied, and about three hundred and thirty years before Christ. This was the third overturning of the world that came to pass in this period, and was greater and more remarkable than either of the foregoing. It was very remarkable on account of the suddenness of that conquest of the world which Alexander made, and the greatness f the empire which he set up, which much exceeded all the foegoing in its extent.