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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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(5) It will be a time of excellent order in the church of Christ. The true government and discipline of the church will then be settled and put into practice. All the world shall then be as one church, one orderly, regular, beautiful society. And as the body shall be one, so the members shall be in beautiful proportion to each other. There shall that be verified in Psal. cxxii.3. Jerusalem is builded as a city, that is compact together."
(6) The church of God shall then be beautiful and glorious on these accounts; yea, it will appear in perfection of beauty: Is. lx.1. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Is. lxi.10 "He hath covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a […] himself with ornaments, and as a bride […]." On these forementioned accounts, the church will then be the greatest image of heaven itself.
(6) The church of God shall then be beautiful and glorious on these accounts; yea, it will appear in perfection of beauty: Is. lx.1. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Is. lxi.10 "He hath covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a 〈…〉 himself with ornaments, and as a bride 〈…〉." On these forementioned accounts, the church will then be the greatest image of heaven itself.
(7) That will be a time of the greatest temporal prosperity. Such a spiritual state as we have just […] a natural tendency to temporal prosperity: it has a tendency to health and long life; and that this will actually be the case, is evident by