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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 2
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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 Luke xxi.28. and Eph. i.14. "Redemption of the purchased possession."
2. All that is before this, while the church is under the means of grace, is only to make way for the success which is to be accomplished in the bestowment of glory. The means of grace are to fit for glory; and God's grace itself is bestowed on the elect to make them meet for glory.