A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

You may remember, that when I began to discourse of this third proposition, viz. That from the resurrection of Christ to the end of the world, the whole time is taken up in procuring the success and effect of Christ's purchase of redemption, I observed, that the success of Christ's purchase is of two kinds, consist-either in grace or glory; and that the success consisting in the former of these, is to be seen in those works of God which are wrought during those ages that the church is continued under the means of grace; and that the success, consisting in the latter, will chiefly be accomplished at the day of judgement.

Having already shown how the former kind of success has been accomplished, I come now, in the second place, to the latter, viz. that kind of success which is accomplished in the b•••owment of glory on the church, which shall chiefly be bestowed on the church at the day of judgement.—Here I would mention two o• three things in the general concerning this kind of success of Christ's purchase.

1. How great the success of Christ's purchase is, chiefly appears in this. The success of Christ's purchase does summarily consist in the salvation of the elect. But this bestowment of glory is eminently called their salvation: Heb. ix.28. "To them that look for him, shall he appear the second time, without sin unto salvation". — So it is called redemption, being eminently tha• wherein the redemption of the church consists. So in Eph. iv.30. "Sealed unto the day of redemption;" and