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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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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 Rev. xviii.6.7.— The judgements which God shall execute on the enemies of the church, are so great, that they are compared to God's sending great hail-stones from heaven upon them, every one of the weight of a talent, as it is said on the pouring out of the seventh vial, ⟨p. 260⟩Rev. xvi.21. "And their fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent; and men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great." Now shall be that treading of the wine-press spoken of, Rev. xiv.19.20.
Then shall this cruel persecuting church suffer those judgements from God, which shall be far more dreadful than her cruelest persecutions of the saints, agreeable to Rev. xviii.6.7.— The judgements which God shall execute on the enemies of the church, are so great, that they are compared to God's sending great hail-stones from heaven upon them, every one of the weight of a talent, as it is said on the pouring out of the seventh vial, ⟨p. 260⟩Rev. xvi.21. "And their fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent; and men blaphemed God, because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great." Now shall be that treading of the wine-press spoken of, Rev. xiv.19.20.