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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. › IMPROVEMENT OF THE WHOLE.
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3. The glorious issue of this whole affair, in the perfect and eternal destruction of the wicked, and in the consummate glory of the righteous. Now let us once more take a view of this building▪ now all is finished and the top-stone laid. It appeared in a glorious height in the apostles time, and much more glorious in the time of Constantine, and will appear much more glorious still after the fall of Antichrist; but at the consummation of all things, it appears in […] immensely more glorious height than ever before. Now •t appears in its greatest magnificence, as a complete lofty structure, whose top reaches to the heaven of heavens; a building worthy of the great God, the King of kings.
3. The glorious issue of this whole affair, in the perfect and eternal destruction of the wicked, and in the consummate glory of the righteous. Now let us once more take a view of this building▪ now all is finished and the top-stone laid. It appeared in a glorious height in the apostles time, and much more glorious in the time of Constantine, and will appear much more glorious still after the fall of Antichrist; but at the consummation of all things, it appears in 〈…〉 immensely more glorious height than ever before. Now •t appears in its greatest magnificence, as a compleat lofty structure, whose top reaches to the heaven of heavens; a building worthy of the great God, the King of kings.
From what has been said, one may argue, that the work of redemption is the greatest of all God's works of which we have any ⟨p. 285⟩notice, and it is the end of all his other works. It appears plainly from what has been said, that this work is the principal of all God's works of providence, and that all other works of providence are reducible hither; they are all subordinate to the great affair of redemption. We see that all the revolutions in the world are to subserve this grand design; so that the work of redemption is, as it were, the sum of God's works of providence.