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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 3 › Introduction: INTRODUCTION.
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INTRODUCTION.
BEFORE I enter on the consideration of any particular things accomplished in this period, I would briefly observe some things in general concerning it; and particularly how the times of this period are represented in scripture.
I. The times of this period, for the most part, are those which in the O•d Testament are called the latter days. We often, in the prophets of the Old Testament, read of such and such things that should come to pass in the latter days, and sometimes in the last days. Now these expressions of the prophets are most commonly to be understood of the times of the period that we are now upon, They are called the latter days, and the last days; because this is the last period of the series of God's providences on earth, this last period of that great work of providence, the work of redemption; which as it were the sum of God's works of providence, the time wherein the church is under the last dispensation of the covenant of grace that ever it will be under on earth.
I. The times of this period, for the most part, are those which in the O•d Testament are called the latter days. We often, in the prophets of the Old Testament, read of such and such things that should come to pass in the latter days, and sometimes in the last days. Now these expressions of the prophets are most commonly to be understood of the times of the period that we are now upon, They are called the latter days, and the last days; because this is the last period of the series of God's providences on earth, this last period of that great work of providence, the work of redemption; which as it were the sum of God's works of providence, the time wherein the church is under the last dispensation of the convenant of grace that ever it will be under on earth.