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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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7. When they are gone, this world shall be set on fire, and be turned into a great furnace, wherein all the enemies of Christ and his church shall be tormented for ever and ever. This is manifest by 2 Pet. iii.7. "But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement, and perdition of ungodly men." When Christ and his church are ascended to a distance from this world, that miserable company of wicked being left behind▪ to have their sentence executed upon them here, then, some way or other, this whole lower world shall be set on fire, either by fire from heaven, or by fire breaking out of the bowels of the earth, or both, as it was with the water in the time of the deluge. However, this lower world shall be set all on fire.— How will it strike the wicked with horror, when the fire begins to lay hold upon them, and they find no way to escape it, or flee or hide from it! What shrieking and crying will there be among those many thousands and millions, when they begin to enter into that great furnace, when the whol• world shall be a furnace of the fiercest and most raging heat! in-so much that the Apostle Peter says, (2 Pet. iii.10.12.), that "the heavens shall pass away with great noise, and the element• shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up;" and that the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat." So fierce shall be its heat, that it shall burn the earth into its very centre: which seems to be what is meant, Deut. xxxii.22. "For a fire is kindled in my anger▪ and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on •ire the foundations of the mountains▪"
7. When they are gone, this world shall be set on fire, and be turned into a great furnace, wherein all the enemies of Christ and his church shall be tormented for ever and ever. This is manifest by