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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 1 › Part 1: From the fall to the flood.
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She plainly owns, that this her child was from God, and hoped that her promised seed was to be of this her eldest son; though she was mistaken, as Abraham […] with respect to Ishmael, as Jacob was with respect to Esau, […] Samuel was with respect to her first born of Jesse. Especially does what she said at the birth of Seth, express her hope and dependence on the promise of God; see ver. 25. "For God hath appointed me another seed, instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."
She plainly owns, that this her child was from God, and hoped that her promised seed was to be of this her eldest son; though she was mistaken, as Abraha• 〈…〉 with respect to Ishmael, as Jacob was with respect to Esau, 〈…〉 Samuel was with respect to her first born of Jesse. Especially does what she said at the birth of Seth, express her hope and depend•nce on the promise of God; see ver. 25. "For God hath appointed me another seed, instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."
Thus it is exceeding probable, if not evident, that as Christ took on him the work of mediator as soon as man fell; so that he now immediately began his work of redemption in its effect, and that he immediately encountered his great enemy […] devil, whom he had undertaken to conquer, and rescued those two first captives out of his hands; therein hassling him, soon after his triumph for the victory he had obtained over them, whereby he had made them his captives. Though he was, as it were, sure of them and all their posterity, Christ the Redeemer soon showed him, that he was mistaken, and that he was able to subdue him, and deliver fallen man. He let him see it, in delivering those first captives of his; and so soon gave him an instance of the fulfilment of that threatening, "The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head;" and in this instance a presage of the fulfilment of one great thing he had undertaken, viz. his subduing all his enemies under his feet.
Thus it is exceeding probable, if not evident, that as Christ took on him the work of mediator as soon as man fell; so that he now immediately began his work of redemption in its effect, and that he immediately encountered his great enemy devil, whom he had undertaken to conquer, and rescued those two first captives out of his hands; therein hassling him, soon after his triumph for the victory he had obtained over them, whereby he had made them his captives. Though he was, as it were, sure of them and all their posterity, Christ the Redeemer soon showed him, that he was mistaken, and that he was able to subdue him, and deliver fallen man. He let him see it, in delivering those first captives of his; and so soon gave him an instance of the fulfilment of that threatening, "The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head;" and in this instance a presage of the fulfilment of one great thing he had undertaken, viz. his subduing all his enemies under his feet.