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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.
The meritoriousness of Christ's obedience, depends on the perfection ⟨p. 151⟩of it It is had failed […] instance of perfection, it could not have been meritorious: […] imperfect obedience is not […] obedience at all in the sight of the law of works, which was […] law that Christ was subject to; for that is not accepted as an obedience to a law that does not answer that law.
The meritoriousness of Christ's obedience, depends on the perfection ⟨p. 151⟩of it It is had failed 〈…〉 ins•ance of perfection, it could not have been meritorious: 〈…〉 imperfect obedience is not 〈…〉 obedience at all in the sight of the law of works, which was 〈…〉 law that Christ was subject to; for that is not accepted as an obedience to a law that does not answer that law.
2. The n•x• thing I would observe of Christ's obedience is, that it was […] •••ough the greatest trials and temptations that ever […] was. His obedience was attended with the gre•te•• difficulties, and most extreme abasement and suffering that ever any obedience was; which was another thing that render•• is more meritorious and thank-worthy. To obey another when •is commands are easy, is not so worthy, as it is to obey when it cannot be done with••• great difficulty.