A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

But then sometimes the work of redemption is taken more largely, including all that God works or accomplishes tending to this end; not only the purchasing the redemption, but also all God's works that were properly preparatory to the purchase, or as applying the purchase and accomplishing the success of it: so that the whole dispensation, as it includes the preparation, and the purchase, and the application and success of Christ's redemption, is here called the work of redemption. All that Christ does in this great aff•ir as mediator, in any of his offices, either of prophet, priest, or king; either when he was in this world, in his human nature, or before or since; and not only what Christ the mediator has done, but also what the Father and the Holy Ghost, have done, as united or confederated in this design of redeeming sinful men; or, in one word, all that is wrought in execution of the eternal covenant of redemption; this is what I call the work of redemption in the doctrine; for it is all but one work, one design. The various dispensations or works that belong to it, are but the several parts of one scheme. It is but one design that is formed to which all the offices of Christ do directly tend, and in which all the persons of the Trinity do conspire, and all the various dispensations that belong to it are united; and the several wheels are one machine, to answer one end, and produce one effect.

But then sometimes the work of redemption is taken more largely, including all that God works or accomplishes tending to this end; not only the purchasing the redemption, but also all God's works that were properly preparatory to the purchase, or as applying the purchase and accomplishing the success of it: so that the whole dispensation, as it includes the preparation, and the purchase, and the application and success of Christ's redemption, is here called the work of redemption. All that Christ does in this great aff•ir as mediator, in any of his offices, either of prophet, priest, or king; either when he was in this world, in his human nature, or before or since; and not only what Christ the mediator has done, but also what the Father and the Holy Ghost, have done, as united or confederated in this design of redeeming sinful men; or, in one word, all that is wrought in execution of the eternal covenant of redemption; this is what I call the work of redemption in the doctrine; for it is all but one work, one design. The various dispensations or works that belong to it, are but the several parts of one scheme. It is but one design that is formed to which all the offices of Christ do directly tend, and in which all the persons of the Trinity do conspire, and all the various dispensations that belong to it are united; and the several wheels are one mchine, to answer one end, and produce one effect.