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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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Thus Christ had a glorious harvest in Samaria; which is what ⟨p. 195⟩Christ seems to have had respect to, in what he said to his disciples at Jacob's well three or four years before, on occasion of the people of Samaria's appearing at a distance in the fields coming to the place where Christ was, at the instigation of the woman of Samaria. […] that occasion, he bids his disciples lift up their eyes to the […] for that they were white to the harvest. John iv.35.36. […] position which the people of Samaria s•owed towards Christ […] gospel, showed that they were ripe for the harvest. […] the harvest is come by Philip's preaching. There used to be a […] bitter enmity between the Jews and Samaritans; but now, by […] conversion, the Christian Jews and Samaritans are all happily united: for in Christ Jesus is neither Jew nor Samaritan, but Christ is all in all. This was a glorious instance of the wolf's dwelling with the lamb, and the leopard's lying down with the kid.
Thus Christ had a glorious harvest in Samaria; which is what ⟨p. 195⟩Christ seems to have had respect to, in what he said to his disciples at Jacob's well three or four years before, on occasion of the people of Samaria's appearing at a distance in the fields coming to the place where Christ was, at the instigation of the woman of Samaria. 〈…〉 that occasion, he bids his disciples lift up their eyes to the 〈…〉 for that they were white to the harvest. John iv.35.36. 〈…〉 position which the people of Samaria s•owed towards Christ 〈…〉 gospel, showed that they were ripe for the harvest. 〈…〉 the harvest is come by Philip's preaching. There used to be a 〈…〉 bitter enmity between the Jews and Samaritans; but now, by 〈…〉 conversion, the Christian Jews and Samaritans are all happily united: for in Christ Jesus is neither Jew nor Samaritan, but Christ is all in all. This was a glorious instance of the wolf's dwelling with the lamb, and the leopard's lying down with the kid.