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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
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.
As he ascended into heaven, God the Father did in a visible manner set him on the throne as king of the universe. He then put ⟨p. 184⟩the angels all under him, and subjected heaven and earth under him. that he might govern them for the good of the people for whom he had die•, E•h i 20 21.22
As Christ rose from the dead, so he ascended into heaven as the head of the holy and forerunner of all the church; and so they, as it were, ascend with •im, as well as rise with him: so that we are both raised up together, and made to fit together in heavenly places in Christ, E•h ii 6
As Christ rose from the dead, so he ascended into heaven as the head of the holy and •ore•unner of all the church; and so they, as it were, ascend with •im, as well as rise with him: so that we are both raised up together, and made to fit together in heavenly places in Christ, E•h ii 6
The d•y of Christ's ascension into heaven was doubtless a joyful, glorious day in heaven. As heaven received Christ, God-man, as its king, so doubtless it received a great accession of glory and happiness, far beyond what it had before. So that the times in both parts of the church both that part w•ich is in heaven, and alo that which is on earth, are become more […] since Christ's humiliation than before.