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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...

this wonderful Work [of Redemption].4 And therefore [it] might be shown in many respects the state of the lower world is wisely fitted in its formation for such a state of man as he is in since the fall under a possibility of redemption. So that when it is said that the Work of Redemption is carried on [from the fall of man to the end of the world],5 ’tis not meant that all that ever was done in order to a redemption began after that. Nor— 2.6 Is it meant that there were no remaining fruits of this
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