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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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[…] of the gospel, which began to dawn […] gradually grew and increased through' all the ages of the […], as we observed as we went along▪ is •ow come to the light of perfect day, and the brightness of the sun shining forth in his unveiled glory.
〈…〉 of the gospel, which began to dawn 〈…〉 gradually grew and increased thro' all the ages of the 〈…〉, as we observed as we went along▪ is •ow come to the light of perfect day, and the brightness of the sun shining forth in his unv•iled glory.
VI. The next thing that I would observe, is the appointment of the office of deacons in the Christian church, which we have an account of in the 6th chapter of the Acts, to take care for the outward supply of the members of Christ's church, and the exercise of that great Christian virtue of charity.
VII. The calling, and qualifying, and sending the Apostle Paul. This was begun in his conversion as he was going to Damascus, and was one of the greatest means of the success of Christ's redemption that followed: for this success was more by the labours, preaching, and writings of this Apostle, than all the other apostles put together. For, as he says, 1 Cor. xv.10. he "laboured more abundantly than they all;" so his success was more abundant than that of them all. As he was the apostle of the Gentiles, so it was mainly by his ministry that the Gentiles were called, and the gospel spread through the world; and our nation, and the other nations of Europ ave the gospel among them, chiefly through his means; and he was more employed by the Holy Ghost in revealing the glorious doctrines of the gospel by his writings, for the use of the church in all ages, than all the other apostles taken together.