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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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That work of conversion shall go on in a wonderful manner, and spread more and more. Many shall flow together to the goodness ⟨p. 251⟩of the Lord, and shall come as it were in flocks, one flock and multitude after another continually flowing in, as in Is. lx.4.5. "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see and flow together." And so vers. 8. "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" It being represented in the forementioned place in the Revelation, that the gospel shall be preached to every tongue, and kindred, and nation, and people, before the fall of Antichrist; so we may suppose, that it will soon be gloriously successful to bring in multitudes from every nation; and it shall spread more and more with wonderful swiftness, and vast numbers shall suddenly be brought in as at once, as you may see, Is. lxvi.7 8.9.
That work of conversion shall go on in a wonderful manner, and spread more and more. Many shall flow together to the goodness ⟨p. 251⟩of the Lord, and shall come as it were in flocks, one flock and multitude after another continu•lly flowing in, as in Is. lx.4.5. "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see and flow together." And so vers. 8. "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" It being represented in the forementioned place in the Revelation, that the gospel shall be preached to every tongue, and kindred, and nation, and people, before the fall of Antichrist; so we may suppose, that it will soon be gloriously successful to bring in multitudes from every nation; and it shall spread more and more with wonderful swiftness, and vast numbers shall suddenly be brought in as at once, as you may see, Is. lxvi.7 8.9.