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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Notice was taken of it by the Gentiles, which appeared in the wise men of the east. Great part of the universe does as it were take a joyful notice of the incarnation of Christ. Heaven takes notice of it, and the inhabitant• sing for joy. This lower world, the world of mankind, does also take notice of it in both parts of it, Jews and Gentiles. I• pleased God to put honour on his Son, by wonderfully stirring up some of the wisest of the Gentiles to come a long journey to see and worship the Son of God at his birth, being led by a miraculous sta•, […] the […] glorious person, who is the bright and •••ning st•r▪ goi•• before and leading them to the very pl•ce where the you•• child was. Some think they were instructed by the proph••y of […] ▪ who […] in the eastern parts, and foretold Christ•• coming as […] that should rise ou• of Jacob. Or they might be instruct•• by that general expectation there was of the Messiah's coming […] ou• […] before spoken of, from the notice […] the prop•e•ies the Jews had of him in their dispersion […] all […] of the word that time.
Notice was taken of it by the Gentiles, which appeared in the wise men of the east. Great part of the universe does as it were take a joyful notice of the incarnation of Christ. Heaven takes notice of it, and the inhabitant• si•g for joy. This lower world, the world of mankind, does also take notice of it in both parts of it, Jews and Gentiles. I• pleased God to put honor on his Son, by wonderfully stirring up some of the wisest of the Gentiles to come a long journey to see and worship the Son of God at his birth, being led by a miracuus sta, the glorious person, who is the bright and ning str goi before and leading them to the very plce where the you child was. Some think they were instructed by the prophy of who in the eastern parts, and foretold Christ coming as that should rise ou of Jacob. Or they might be instruct by that general expectation there was of the Msiah's coming ou before spoken of, from the notice the propeies the Jews had of him in their dispersion all of the word that time.