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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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2. I would observe, that each of the three former of these is a lively image or type of the fourth and last, viz. Christ's coming to the final judgement, as the principal dispensations of providence before Christ's first coming, were types of that first coming. — As Christ's last coming to judgement is accompanied with a resurrection of the dead, so is each of the three foregoing with a spiritual resurrection. That coming of Christ, which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem, was preceded by a glorious spiritual resurrection of souls in the calling of the Gentiles, and bringing home such multitudes of souls to Christ by the preaching of the gospel. So Christ's coming in Constantine's time, was accompanied with a glorious spiritual resurrection of the greater part of the known world, in a restoration of it to a visible-church state, from a state of Heathenism. So Christ's coming at the destruction of Antichrist, will be attended with a spiritual resurrection of the church after it had been long as it were dead, in the times of Antichrist. This is called the first resurrection in the 20th chapter of Revelations.
2. I would observe, that each of the three former of these is a lively image or type of the fourth and last, viz. Christ's coming to the final judgement, as the principal dispensations of providence before Christ's first coming, were types of that first coming. — As Christ's last coming to judgement is accompained with a resurrection of the dead, so is each of the three foregoing with a spiritual resurrection. That coming of Christ, which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem, was preceded by a glorious spiritual resurrection of souls in the calling of the Gentiles, and bringing home such multitudes of souls to Christ by the preaching of the gospel. So Christ's coming in Constantine's time, was accompanied with a glo•ious spiritual resurrection of the greater part of the known world, in a restoration of it to a visible-chu•ch state, from a state of Heathenism. So Christ's coming at the destruction of Antichrist, will be attended with a spiritual resurrection of the church after it had been long as it were dead, in the times of Antichrist. This is called the first resurrection in the 20th chapter of Revelations.