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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
A HISTORY Of the WORK of REDEMPTION. › Period 2 › Part 2 › Section 3
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.
This law of works indeed includes all the laws of God which ever have been given to mankind; for it is • general rule of the law of works, and indeed of the law of […] ▪ That God is to be obeyed, and that he must be submitted to in whatever positive precept he is pleased to give us. It is a rule of the law of wo•ks, That men should obey their […] parents: and it is certainly as much a rule of the s•me law, That we should obey our heavenly Father: and so the law of wo•ks requires obedience to all positive commands of God. It required Adam's obedience to that positive command, Not to eat of the forbidden fruit; and it required obedience of the Jews to all the positive commands of their institution. When God commanded Jonah to arise and go to Nineveh, the law of works required him to obey: and so it required Christ's obedience to all the positive commands which God gave him.
This law of works indeed includes all the laws of God which ever have been given to mankind; for it is • general rule of the law of works, and indeed of the law of 〈…〉 ▪ That God is to be obeyed, and that he must be submitted to in whatever positive precept he is pleased to give us. It is a rule of the law of wo•ks, That men sh•uld ob•y their 〈…〉 parents: and it is certainly as much a rule of the s•me law, That we should obey our heavenly Father: and so the law of wo•ks requires obedience to all positive commands of God. It required Adam's obedience to that positive command, Not to eat of the forbidden f•uit; and it required obedience of the Jews to all the positive commands of their institution. When God commanded J•nah to arise and go to Nineveh, the law of works required him to obey: and so it required Christ's obedience to all the positive commands which God gave him.