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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This is one of those two g•e•t kingdoms which the devil in this period erected in opposition to the kingdom of Christ, and was the greatest and chief. I come now▪
This is one of those two g•e•t kingdoms which the devil in this period erected in oppositon to the kingdom of Christ, and was the greatest and chief. I come now▪
(2) To speak of the other, the second, which is in many respects like unto it, v•z. his Mahometan kingdom, which is another great kingdom of mighty power and vast extent, set up by Satan against the kingdom of Christ: he set this up in the Eastern empire, as he did that of Antichrist in the Western.
(2) To speak of the other, the second, which is in many respects like unto it, v•z. his M•hometan kingdom, which is another great kingdom of mighty power and vast extent, set up by Satan against the ki•gdom of Christ: he set this up in the Eastern empire, as he did that of Antichrist in the Western.
Mahomet was born in the year of Christ •70, in Arabia. When he was about forty years of age, he began to give forth that he was the great prophet of God, and began to teach his new invented religion, of which he was to be worshipped as the head next under God. He published his Alcoran, which he pretended he received from the angel Gabriel; and being a subtle crafty man, and possessed of considerable wealth, and living among a people who were very ignorant, and greatly divided in their opinions of religious matters, by subtlety, and fair promises of a sensual paradi, he