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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 › IMPROVEMENT. › Section 1
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Now th•se things are declared to you as actually fulfilled. The church now has seen accomplished all those great things which they so joyfully prophesied of; and you are abundantly shown how those things were accomplished: Matth. xiii.17. "Verily I say unto y•u, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see […] which ye see, and have not seen; and to hear those th••gs which ye hear, and have not heard them." Yet, when these things are […] abundantly set before you as already accomplished, how do you slight them! How light do you make of them! How little are they taken noti•• of by you! How unconcerned are you a••ut them, following other things, and not so much as feeling a•y interest in •hem! Indeed your sin is extremely aggravated in […] sight of God. God has put you under great advantage for your eternal salvation, for greater than those saints of old enjoyed. He has put you under a more glorious dispensation; has given you a more clear revelation of Christ and his salvation; and yet you neglect all these advantages, and go on in a careless course of life, as though nothing had been done, no such proposals and offers h•d been made you.
Now th•se things are declared to you as actually fulfilled. The c•urch now has seen accomplished all those great things which they so joyfully prophesied of; and you are abundantly shown how those things were accomplished: Matth. xiii.17. "Verily I say unto y•u, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see 〈…〉 which ye see, and have not seen; and to hear those th••gs which ye hear, and have not heard them." Yet, when these things are 〈…〉 abundantly set before you as already accomplihed, how do you slight them! How light do you make of them! How little are they taken noti of by you! How unconcerned are you aut them, folowing other things, and not so much as feeling ay interest in hem! Indeed your sin is extremely aggravated in sight of God. God has put you under great advantage for your eternal salvation, for greater than those saints of old enjoyed. He has put you under a more glorious dispensation; has given you a more clear revelation of Christ and his salvation; and yet you neglect all these advantages, and go on in a careless course of life, as though nothing had been done, no such proposals and offers hd been made you.