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In 1739 Jonathan Edwards preached a series of thirty sermons in his church at Northampton, Massachusetts—sermons based on one scriptural passage: Isaiah 51:8. Apparently Edwards later intended to develop this discourse into a major treatise construing God’s redemption of the world as the most basic doctrine of theology. Unfortunately, he died before he could undertake this project. The sermon...

the God of [his salvation],” Ps. 36:10, “O continue thy lovingkindness to them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright,” and Ps. 51:14, “Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation;3 and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness” and Dan. 9:16, “O Lord, according to thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away” and so in innumerable other places. The other word here used is salvation. Of these two, God’s righteousness and his
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