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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 › Part 2 › Section 1
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1. The appointment of the office of the gospel ministry. For this commission which Christ gives to his apostles, in the most essential parts of it▪ belongs to all ministers; an• the apostles, by virtue of it, were ministers or elders of the church.
1. The appointment of the office of the gospel min•stry. For this commission which Christ gives to his apostles, in the most essential parts of it▪ belongs to all ministers; an• the apostles, by virtue of it, were ministers or elders of the church.
2. Here is something peculiar in this commission of the apostles, viz to go forth from one nation to another, preaching the gospel in all the world. The apostles had something above what belonged to their ordinary character as ministers; they had an extraordinary power of teaching and ruling, which extended to all the churches; and not only all the churches which then were, but all that should be to the end of the world by their ministry. And so the apostles were, as it were, in subordination to Christ, made foundations of the Christian church. See Eph. ii.20. and Rev. xx.14.
3. Here is an appointment of Christian baptism. This ordinance indeed had a beginning before; John the Baptist and Christ both baptized. But now especially by this institution is it established as an ordinance to be upheld in the Christian church to the end of the world.—The ordinance of the Lord's supper had been established be oe, just before Christ's crucifixion.