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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECONDLY, To show how the success of redemption will be carried on through that space wherein the Christian church shall for the most part be in a state of peace and prosperity. In order to this, I would,
1. Speak of the prosperous state of the church through the greater part of this period.
2. Of the great apostasy there shall be towards the close of it: how greatly then the church shall be threatened by her enemies for a short time.
I. I would speak of the prosperous state of the church through the greater part of this period. In doing this, I would, 1. Describe this prosperous state of the church; 2. Say something of its duration.