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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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1. That this is most properly the time of the kingdom of heaven upon earth. Though the kingdom of heaven was in a degree ⟨p. 262⟩set up soon after Christ's resurrection, and in a further degree in the time o• Constantine; and though the Christian church in all ages of it is c••led the kingdom of heaven; yet this time that we are upon▪ is the principal time of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, the time principally intended by the prophecies of Daniel, which speak of the kingdom of heaven, whence the Jews took the name of the kingdom of heaven
1. That this is most properly the time of the kingdom of heaven upon earth. Though the kingdom of heaven was in a degree ⟨p. 262⟩set up soon after Christ's resurrection, and in a further degree in the time o• Constantine; and though the Christ•an chu•ch in all ages of it is c••led the kingdom of heaven; yet this time that we are upon▪ is the principal time of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, the time principally intended by the prophecies of D•niel, which speak of the kingdom of heaven, whence the Jews took the name of the kingdom of heaven
2. Now •s the principal fulfilment of all the prophecies of the Old Testament which speak of the glorious times of the gospel which shall be in the latter da••. Though there has been a glorious fulfilment of those prophecies already, in the times of the apostles, and o Constantine; yet the expressions are too high to suit any other time entirely, but that which is to succeed the fail of Antichrist. This is most properly the glorious day of the gospel. Oher times are only oreunner and preparatories to this: other times were the seed time, but this is the harvest — But more particularly.