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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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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, ⟨p. 190⟩