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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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3. Christ and his church shall in this battle obtain a complete and entire victory over their enemies. They shall be totally routed and overthrown in this their last effort. When the powers of hell and earth are thus gathered together against Christ, and his ⟨p. 253⟩armies shall come forth against them by his word and spirit to fight with •hem, in how august, and pompous, and glorious a manner is this coming forth of Christ and his church to this battle described, Rev xix.•1 &c.! To represent to us how great the victory should be which they should obtain, and how mighty the overthrow of their enemies, it is said, vers. 17 & 18. that "all the fowls of heaven are called together, to eat the great supper given them, of the flesh of kings, and captains, and mighty men," &c.; and then, in the following verses, we have an account of the victory and overthrow.
3. Christ and his church shall in this battle obtain a compleat and entire victory over their enemies. They shall be totally routed and overthrown in this their last effort. When the powers of hell and earth are thus gathered together against Christ, and his ⟨p. 253⟩armies shall come forth against them by his word and spirit to fight with •hem, in how august, and pompous, and glorious a manner is this coming forth of Christ and his church to this battle described, Rev xix.•1 &c.! To represent to us how great the victory should be which they should obtain, and how mighty the overthrow of their enemies, it is said, vers. 17 & 18. that "all the fowls of heaven are called together, to eat the great supper given them, of the flesh of kings, and captains, and mighty men," &c.; and then, in the following verses, we have an account of the victory and overthrow.