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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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This Luke, who wrote the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts, was a great companion of the Apostle Paul. He is spoken of as being with him in the last-mentioned place, and speaks of himself a• accompanying him in his travels in the history of the Acts; and therefore he speaks in the first person plural, when speaking of Paul's travels saying▪ We went to such and such a place; We set sail; We launched from such a place; and landed at such a place. He was greatly beloved by the Apostle Paul: he is that beloved physician spoken of, Col. iv.14. The Apostle ranks Mark and Luke among his fellow-labourers, Philemon. 24. "Marcus, Aristarchus, Dumas, Lucas, my fellow-labourers."
This Luke, who wrote the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts, was a great companion of the Apostle Paul. He is spoken of as being with him in the last-mentioned place, and speaks of himself a• accompanying him in his travels in the history of the Acts; and therefore he speaks in the first person plural, when speaking of Paul's travels saying▪ We went to such and such a place; We set sail; We lanched from such a place; and landed at such a place. He was greatly beloved by the Apostle Paul: he is that beloved physician spoken of, Col. iv.14. The Apostle ranks Mark and Luke among his fellow-labourers, Philemon. 24. "Marcus, Aristarcus, D•mas, Lucas, my fellow-labourers."
The rest of the books were all written by the apostles themselves. The books of the New Testament are either historical, or doctrinal, or prophetical The historical books are the writings of the four evangelists, giving us the history of Christ, and his purchase of redemption, and his resurrection and ascension; and the Acts of the apostles, giving an account of the great things by which the Christian church was first established and propagated. The doctrinal books are the epistles. These, most of them, we have from the great Apostle Paul. And we have one prophetical book, which takes place after the end of the history of the whole Bible, and gives an account of the great events which were to come to pass, by which the work of redemption was to be carried on to the end of the world.