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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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2dly▪ To say […] of the duration of this state of the church's prosperity. On […] shall be very brief. The scriptures every where […] continuance. The former […] of rest and prosperity, as we before observed, are represented to be but short; but the representations of this state are quite different: Rev. ••• 4. "And I saw the souls of them that were •• headed for […] Jesus,—and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Is. lx.15. "Whereas thou hast been forsaken and […] that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations."
2dly▪ To say 〈…〉 of the duration of this state of the church's prosperity. On 〈…〉 shall be very brief. The scriptures every where 〈…〉 continuance. The former 〈…〉 of rest and prosperity, as we before observed, are represented to be but short; but the representations of this state are quite different: Rev. ••• 4. "And I saw the souls of them that were •• headed for 〈…〉 Jesus,—and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Is. lx.15. "Whereas thou hast been forsaken and 〈…〉 that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations."
This may suffice as to the prosperous state of the church through the greater part of the period from the destruction of Satan's visible kingdom in the world to Christ's appearing in the clouds of heaven to judgement.