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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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2. His birth —Though the conception of Christ was supernatural, yet after he was conceived, and so the incarnation of Christ begun, his human nature was gradually perfected in the womb of the virgin, in a way of natural progress; and so his birth was in a way of nature But his conception being supernatural, by the power of the Holy Ghost, he was both conceived and born without sin.
2. His birth —Though the conception of Christ was supernatural, yet after he was conceived, and so the incarnation of Christ begun, his human nature was gradually perfected in the womb of the virgin, in a way of natural progress; and so his birth was in a way of natu•e But his conception being supernatural, by the power of the Holy Ghost, he was both conceived and born without sin.
II. The second thing I would observe concerning the incarnation of Christ, is the fullness of the time in which it was accomplished. It was after things had been preparing for it from the very first fall of mankind, and when all things were ready It came to pass at a time, which in infinite wisdom was the most fit and proper: Gal. iv.4. "But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law."
II. The second thing I would observe concerning the incarnation of Christ, is the fulness of the time in which it was acomplished. It was after things had been preparing for it from the very first fall of mankind, and when all things were ready It came to pass at a time, which in infinite wisdom was the most fit and proper: Gal. iv.4. "But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law."