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

A little consideration will convince every one, that all these things were necessary, and that none of them could be spared; and in the general▪ that it was necessary that we should have an history of God's […] such times as are within the reach of human histories; and it was of vast […] that we should have an inspired history of those times of the Jewish church, wherein there was kept up a more extraordinary intercourse between God and them, and while he used to dwell among them as it were visibly, revealing himself by the Shechinah, by Urim and Thummim, and by prophecy, and so more, immediately to order their affairs. And it was necessary that we should have some account of the great dispensations of God in prophecy, which were to be after the finishing of inspired history; and so it was exceeding suitable and needful that there should be a number of prophets raised who should foretell the coming of the Son of God, and the nature and glory of his kingdom, to be as so many […] •ingers to make way for him, and that their prophecies should remain in the church.

A little consideration will convince every one, that all these things were necessary, and that none of them could be spared; and in the general▪ that it was necessary that we should have an history of God's 〈…〉 such times as are within the reach of human histories; and it was of vast 〈…〉 that we should have an inspired history of those times of the Jewish church, wherein there was kept up a more extraordinary intercourse between God and them, and while he used to dwell among them as it were visibly, revealing himself by the Shechina, by Urim and Thummim, and by prophecy, and so more, immediately to order their affairs. And it was necessary that we should have some account of the great dispensations of God in prophecy, which were to be after the finishing of inspired history; and so it was exceeding suitable and needful that there should be a number of prophets raised who should foretel the coming of the Son of God, and the nature and glory of his kingdom, to be as so many 〈…〉 •ingers to make way for him, and that their prophecies should remain in the church.