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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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(2) Another thing, which it would be grateful in us not to take notice of, is that remarkable pouring out of the Spirit of God which has been of late in this part of New England, of which we, in this town, have had such a share. But it is needless for me particularly to describe it, it being what you have so lately been eyewitnesses to, and I hope multitudes of you sensible of the benefit of.
Thus I have mentioned the more remarkable instances of the success which the gospel has lately had in the world.
4. I proceed now to the last thing that was proposed to be considered relating to the success of Christ's redemption during this space, viz. what the state of things is now in the world with […] to the church of Christ, and the success of Christ's purchase. This I would do, by showing how things are now, compared with the first times of the Reformation. 1. I would show wherein […] of things is altered for the worse; and, 2. How it is altered […] the better.
4. I proceed now to the last thing that was proposed to be considered relating to the success of Christ's redemption during this space, viz. what the state of things is now in the world with 〈…〉 to the church of Christ, and the success of Christ's purchase. This I would do, by showing how things are now, compared with the first times of the Reformation. 1. I would show wherein 〈…〉 of things is altered for the worse; and, 2. How it is altered 〈…〉 the better.