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The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. 833–1152) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout his adult life Jonathan Edwards kept a series of personal theological notebooks on a wide variety of miscellaneous subjects. This volume includes the notebook entries written during the eventful and tumultuous years 1740–1751, when Edwards was plagued by a series of bitter controversies with his Northampton congregation that culminated in his dismissal. This was also the period during...

which the Father is invested with his character as head of the Trinity, precedes that which invests the Son with his character of mediator, and therefore precedes the covenant of redemption, which is the establishment that invests the Son with that character. If the Son were invested with the office of a mediator by the same establishment and agreement of the persons of the Trinity by which the Father is invested with power to act as head of the Trinity, then the Father could not be said to elect
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