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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seeing this work of redemption is so great a work, hence we need not wonder that the angels desire to look into it. We need not wonder that so much is made of it in scripture, and that it is so much insisted on in the histories, and prophecies, and songs of the Bible; for the work of redemption is the great subject of the whole, of its doctrines, its promises, its types, its songs, its histories, and its prophecies.
II. Hence we may learn how God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending of all things. Such are the character, […] titles we find often ascribed to God in scripture, in those place, ⟨p. 286⟩where the scripture speaks of the course of things, and series of events in providence: Is. xli.4. Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord the first, and with the last, I am he, And particularly does the scripture ascribe such titles to God, where it speaks of the providence of God, as it relates to, and is summed up in the great work of redemption; as Is xliv 6 7. and xlviii.12. with the context, beginning with the 9th verse. So God eminently appears as the first and the last, by considering the whole scheme of divine providence as we have considered it, viz. as all reducible to that one great work of redemption.
II. Hence we may learn how God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending of all things. Such are the character, 〈…〉 titles we find often ascribed to God in scripture, in those place, ⟨p. 286⟩where the scripture speaks of the course of things, and series of events in providence: Is. xli.4. Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord the first, and with the last, I am he, And particularly does the scripture ascribe such titles to God, where it speaks of the providence of God, as it relates to, and is summed up in the great work of redemption; as Is xliv 6 7. and xlviii.12. with the context, beginning with the 9th verse. So God eminently appears as the first and the last, by considering the whole scheme of divine providence as we have considered it, viz. as all reducible to that one great work of redemption.