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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.
PART II.
I Now proceed to show how he accomplished this success. Here I would observe, that this success consists in two things, viz either in grace, or in glory. That success which consists in the former, is to be seen in those work• of God which are wrought during those ages of the church wherein the church is continued under the outward means of grace. That success which consists in the latter of these, v•z glory: has its chief accomplishment at the day of judgement.
SECT. I
I WOULD first consider the former kind of success, consisting […] God's grace here; which mainly appears in the work of G•d during the time that the Christian church continues under the means of grace; which is from Christ's resurrection to his appearing in the clouds of heaven to judgement; which includes the three former •f those great events of providence before mentioned, which are called Christ's coming in his kingdom. In speaking of thi success I would.