A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

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.

All these books are supposed to have been written before the destruction of Jerusalem, excepting those which were written by the Apostle John, who lived the longest of all the apostles, and wrote what he wrote after the destruction of Jerusalem, as is supposed▪ To this beloved disciple it was that Christ revealed those wonderful things which were to come to pass in his church to the end of time; and he was the person that put the finishing hand to the canon of the scriptures, and sealed the whole of it. So that now the canon of scripture, that great and standing written rule, which was begun about Moses's time▪ is completed and settled, and a curse denounced against him that adds any thing to it, or diminishes any thing from it. And so all things are established and and completed which relate to the appointed means of grace. All the stated means of grace wer• •••ished in the apostolical age, ⟨p. 190⟩or before the death of the Apostle John, and are to remain unaltered to the day of judgement.

All these books are supposed to have been written before the destruction of Jerusalem, excepting those which were written by the Apostle John, who lived the longest of all the apostles, and wrote what he wrote after the destruction of Jerusalem, as is supposed To this beloved disciple it was that Christ revealed those wonderful things which were to come to pass in his church to the end of time; and he was the person that put the finishing hand to the canon of the scriptures, and sealed the whole of it. So that now the canon of scripture, that great and standing written rule, which was begun about Moses's time is compleated and settled, and a curse denounced against him that adds any thing to it, or deminishes any thing from it. And so all things are established and and completed which relate to the appointed means of grace. All the stated means of grace wer ished in the apostolical age,