the other contain thousands, yet in this affair that we are now upon it is indeed more than both the other. I would therefore proceed to show distinctly how the Work of Redemption is carried on from the fall of man to the end of the world through each of these periods in their order, which I would do under three propositions, one concerning each period. I. That [from] the fall of man till the incarnation of Christ God was doing those things that were preparatory to Christ’s coming and working out