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History of Redemption, to Which Are How [sic] Added Notes, Historical, Critical, and Theological, With the Life and Experience of the Author.
History of Redemption to Which Are How Added Notes Historical Critical and Theological With the Life and Experience of the Author - sic Author:Jonathan Edwards Title: History of Redemption, to Which Are How [sic] Added Notes, Historical, Critical, and Theological, With the Life and Experience of the Author. (1st Amer. Ed.) [ed. by D. Austin]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1793 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and ... more »there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ,-(4-) Another concomitant circumftance was his coming into the Second . tepiple, being firft Bought hither when a infant, on iGccsjfion of Uic pujUkatioB of the jblejflfed Virgin. WcTtad, [Hagg. ii. 7.] ' The defire of all nations " (hall come, and I will frll this Jtioufe (or (e-nxple.) with " gjory.' And in [Maj. iii. I.] 'The Lord, yhom ye ' leek, fhall fuddenly come to his temple, even the meflep- ' ger of the covenant.' And now was the firft inftanee of the fulfilment of thefe prophecies. (5.) The laft thing I fliall here mention is the fceptre's departing from Judah, in the death of Herod the Great. The fceptre had never totally departed from Judah till joow. Judah's fceptre was greatly diminifhed -in the revolt of the ten tribes in Jeroboam's time ; and the . fceptre departed from Ifrael or Ephraim, at the time of the captivity of the ten tribes by Shalmanefer. But yet the fceptce . remained in the tribe of Judah, under the kings of the houfe qf J)avid. And when the tribes of Judah and Benjamin were carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar, the fceptr-e of Judah ceafed for . a little while, till the return from the captivity under Cyrus, and then, though they were not an independent government, as they had been before, '. but owed fealty to the kings of Periia; yet fheir governor was of themfelves, who had the power of life and death, and they were governed by their own laws ; and Co Judah had ' a lawgiver from between ...« less