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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 within the state of things is altered for the worse from it what was in the former times of the Reformation, i• the prevailing of licentiousness in principles and opinions. There is not now that spirit of orthodoxy which there was then: there is very little appearance of zeal for the mysterious and spiritual doctrines of Christianity; and they never were so ridiculed, and had in contempt, as they are in the present age; and especially in England, the principal kingdom of the Reformation. In this kingdom, those principles, on which the power of godliness depends, are in a great measure exploded, and Arianism, the Socinianism, so, and Arminianism, and Deism, are the things which prevail, and carry almost all before them Particularly history gives no account of any age wherein there was so great an apostasy of those who had been brought up under the light of the gospel, to infidelity; never was there such a casting off of the Christian and all revealed religion; never any age wherein was so much scoffing at •nd ridiculing the gospel of Christ, by those who have been brought up under gospel light, nor any thing like it, as there is at this day.
(2) Another thing within the state of things is altered for the worse from it what was in the former times of the Reformation, i• the prevailing of licentiousness in principles and opinions. There is not now that spirit of orthodoxy which there was then: there is very little appearance of z•al for the mysterious and spiritual doctrines of Christianity; and they never were so ridiculed, and had in contempt, as they are in the present age; and especially in England, the principal kingdom of the Reformation. In this kingdom, those principles, on which the power of godliness dedepends, are in a great measure exploded, and Arianism, the Socinian•sm, so, and Arminianism, and Deism, are the things which prevail, and carry almost all before them Particularly history gives no account of any age wherein there was so great an apostasy of those who had been brought up under the light of the gospel, to infidelity; never was there such a casting off of the Christian and all revealed religion; never any age wherein was so much scoffing at •nd rediculing the gospel of Christ, by those who have been brought up under gospel light, nor any thing like it, as there is at this day.