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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) Because of the terrible judgements and fearful destruction which shall now be executed on God's enemies. There will doubtless at the introducing of this dispensation be a visible and awful hand of God against blasphemers, Deists, and obstinate heretics, and other enemies of Christ, terribly destroying them, with remarkable tokens of wrath and vengeance; and especially will this dispensation be attended with terrible judgements on Antichrist▪ and the cruel persecutors who belong to the church of Rome, shall in a most awful manner be destroyed; which is compared to a casting of, Antichrist into the burning flame, Dan. vii.11. and to casting him alive into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, Rev. xix.20.
(3) Because of the terrible judgements and fearful destruction which shall now be executed on God's enemies. There will doubtless at the introducing of this dispensation be a visible and awfu• hand of God against blasphemers, Deists, and obstinate heretics, and other enemies of Christ, terribly destroying them, with remarkable tokens of wrath and vengeance; and especially will this dispensation be attended with terrible judgements on Antichrist▪ and the cruel persecutors who belong to the church of Rome, shall in a most awful manner be destroyed; which is compared to a casting of, Antichrist into the burning flame, Dan. vii.11. and to casting him alive into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, Rev. xix.20.
Then shall this cruel persecuting church suffer those judgements from God, which shall be far more dreadful than her cruellest persecutions of the saints, agreeable to