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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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There is a kind of a veil now cast over the greater part of the world, which keeps them in darkness: but then this veil shall be destroyed: Is. xxv.7. "And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread •out all nations." Then all countries and nations, even those which are now most ignorant, shall be full of light and knowledge. Great knowledge shall prevail every where. It may be hoped, that then many of the Negroes and Indians will be divines▪ and that excellent books will be published in Africa, in Ethiopia, in Tartary, and other new and most barbarous countries and not only learned men, but others of more ordinary education, shall then be very knowing in religion: Is. xxxii.3.4. "The eyes of them that see, shall not be dim; and the ears of them that hear, shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge. Knowledge then shall be very universal among all ⟨p. 263⟩sorts of persons; agreeable to Jer. xxxi.34. "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they sha•l all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them."
There is a kind of a vail now cast over the greater part of the world, which keeps them in darkness: but then this vail shall be destroyed: Is. xxv.7. "And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread •out all nations." Then all countries and nations, even those which are now most ignorant, shall be full of light and knowledge. Great knowledge shall prevail every where. It may be hoped, that then many of the Negroes and Indians will be divines▪ and that excellent books will be published in Africa, in Ethiopia, in Tartary, and other new and most barbarous countries and not only learned men, but others of more ordinary education, shall then be very knowing in religion: Is. xxxii.3.4. "The eyes of them that see, shall not be dim; and the ears of them that hear, shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge. Knowledge then shall be very universal among all