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

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.

3. All those glorious things which were brought to pass for the church while under the means of grace, are but images •nd shadows of this. So were those glorious things which were accomplished for the church in the days of Constantine the Great; and so is all that glory which is to be accomplished in the glorious times of the church which are to succeed the fall of Antichrist. As great as it is, it is all but a shadow of what will be bestowed at the day of judgement; and therefore, as I have already often observed, all those preceding events, by which God wrought glorious things for his church, are spoken of in scripture as images of Christ's last coming to judgement.