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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.
After this the Turks, who were originally another people, different from the Saracens, but were followers of Mahomet▪ conquered all the Eastern empire. They began their empire about the year of Christ 1296▪ and began to invade Europe about 1300, and took Constantinople, and so became m••ters of all the Eastern empire in the year 1453, which is near three hundred years ago. Thus all those cities and countries where were those famous churches of old, that we read of in the New Testament, as Jerusalem, Antioch, Ephesus, Corinth, &c. now all became subject to the Turks. And they took possession of Constantinople, which was named after Constantine, the Great, being made by him the head city of the Roman empire, whereas Rome had been till then. These are supposed to be prophesied of by the horsemen in the 9•h chapter of Revelation, beginning with the 15th verse. The Remains of the Christians that are in those parts of the world, who are mostly of the Greek church, are in miserable slavery under these Turks, and treated with a great deal of barbarity and cruelty, and are become mostly very ignorant and superstitious.
After this the Turks, who were originally another people, different from the Saracens, but were followers of Mahomet▪ conquered all the Eastern empire. They began their empire about the year of Christ 1296▪ and began to invade Europe about 1300, and took Constantinople, and so became m••ters of all the E•stern empire in the year 1453, which is near three hundred years ago. Thus all those cities and countries where were those famous churches of old, that we read of in the New Testament, as Jerusalem, Antioch, Ephesus, Corinth, &c. now all became subject to the Turks. And they took possession of Constantinople, which was named after Constantine, the Great, being made by him the head city of the Roman empire, whereas Rome had been till then. These are supposed to be prophesied of by the horsemen in the 9•h chapter of Revelation, beginning with the 15th verse. The Remains of the Christians that are in those parts of the world, who are mostly of the Greek church, are in miserable slavery under these Turks, and treated with a great deal of barbarity and cruelty, and are become mostly very ignorant and superstitious.