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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.
(1) The fi•st opposition that I sh•ll take notice of i• that which was made by the clergy of the church of Rome uniting together in a general council. This was the famous council of Trent, which the Pope called a little while after the Reformation. In that council, there met together six cardinal•, thirty•two archbishops, two hundred and twenty eight bishops, besides innumerable others of the R•mish clergy This council, in all their sittings, including the time• of intermission between their sittings, was held for twenty five years together. Their main business all this while was to conce•• measures for establishing the church of Rome against the Reformers, and for destroying the Reformation. But it proved that they were not able to perform their enterprise. The Reformed church, notwithstanding their holding so great a council, and for so long a time together against it remained, and remains still. So that the counsel of the froward is carried headlong, and their kingdom is full of darkness▪ and they weary themselves to find the door.
(1) The fi•st opposition that I sh•ll take notice of i• that which was made by the clergy of the church of Rome uniting together in a general council. This was the famous council of Trent, which the Pope called a little while after the Reformation. In that council, there met together six cardinal•, thirty•two archbishops, two hundre• and twenty eight bishops, besides innumerable others of the R•mish clergy This council, in all their sittings, including the time• of intermission between their sittings, was held for twenty five years together. Their main business all this while was to conce measures for establishing the church of Rome against the Reformers, and for destroying the Reformation. But it proved that they were not able to perform their enterprize. The Reformed church, notwithstanding their holding so great a council, and for so long a time together against it remained, and remains still. So that the counsel of the froward is carried headlong, and their kingdom is full of darkness and they weary themselves to find the door.