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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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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.
1st, I would describe the prosperous state the church shall be in.
In the general, I would observe two things.
1. That this is most properly the time of the kingdom of heaven upon earth. Though the kingdom of heaven was in a degree