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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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As the Pope and his clergy robbed the people of their ecclesiastical and civil liberties and privileges, so they also robbed them of their estates, and drained all Christendom of their money, and engrossed […] of their riches into their own coffers, by their vast revenues, besi•es pay for pardon• and indulgences, baptisms and extreme unction•, deliverance out of purgatory, and an hundred other things —See how well this agree• with the prophecies, 2 Thes. ii.3.4. […]. vii 20 21. R•v xiii.6.7. and chap xvii.3 4.
As the Pope and his clergy robbed the people of their ecclesiastical and civil liberties and privileges, so they also robbed them of their estates, and drained all Christendom of their money, and ingrossed 〈…〉 of their riches into their own coffers, by their vast revenues, besi•es pay for pardon• and indulgences, baptisms and extreme unction•, deliverance out of pu•gatory, and an hundred other things —See how well this agree• with the prophecies, 2 Thes. ii.3.4. 〈…〉. vii 20 21. R•v xiii.6.7. and chap xvii.3 4.
D••ing this time also superstition and ignorance more and more prevailed. The holy scriptures by degrees were t•ken out of the hands of the laity the better to promote the unscriptural and wicked designs of the Ppe and the clergy: and instead of promoting knowledge among the people, they industriously promoted ignorance. It was a received mxm mong them, That ignorance is the mother of devotion: and so great was the darkness of those times, that learning was almost extinct in the world. The very priests themselves, most of them, were barbarously ignorant as to any commendable learning, or any other knowledge, than their hellish craft in oppressing and tyrannizing over the souls of the people. The superstition and wickedness of the church Rome, kept growing worse and worse till the very time of the Reformation; and the whole Christian world were led away into their great defection, excepting the remains of the Christian church in the Eastern empire that had not been utterly overthrown by the Turks, as the Greek church, and some others, which were also sk into great darkness and gross superstition, excepting also those few that were the people of God, who are represented by the woman in the wilderness, and God's two witnesses, of which more hereafter.