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A History of the Work of Redemption. Containing the Outlines of Divinity, in a method entirely new. By the late reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New Jersey.
Description
Printed title page (1788) followed by the preface, written by Jonathan Edwards Jr. Followed by an index. A complete copy in single column Roman font with the advertisement leaf at the rear.
Collation
[unmarked, title page], a^6, A-Z^6, Aa-Nn^6, Oo^2.
Pagination
[2],xii,434,[2] pp.
Binding
Original brown mottled sheep. Spine with gilt-lined brown label with the words “Edwards on Redemption” lettered in gilt. Plain endpapers. All edges red.
Condition
Pages crisp, clean, and bright. Title page lightly soiled. A few folded page corners. Previous owner inscription to front endpaper. Rubbed to edges and scuffed. Small loss to top of spine and joints.
Note
Jonathan Edwards was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers in early American history. A Congregational minister in Northampton, Massachusetts, he became closely associated with the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, a major revival movement in the American colonies. sweeping theological interpretation of all human history as the unfolding plan of God to redeem humanity through Christ.
Drawn from a series of sermons preached in 1739, the book is structured as a grand narrative of redemption history, tracing God’s saving work from the fall of Adam to the final consummation of all things. Edwards argues that history is not random or cyclical, but providentially ordered around the person and work of Jesus Christ. Every major biblical event, covenant, kingdom, prophecy, and act of divine intervention serves the single purpose of advancing redemption.
References
ETSC N7916.