Edwards, Jonathan. A History of the Work of Redemption; comprising An Outline of Church History. New-York: The American Tract Society, ca. 1845. [11513]
Black leather spine with gilt title, teal cloth blindstamped boards, 6 x 4 inches, extra engraved series page "The Evangelical Family Library, Vol. IX. with steel-engraved vignette, 444 pp., tight, light foxing. Boards with some faded stained areas; front cover a bit bowed. Fair. Hardcover.
Edwards' great work on the salvation of mankind. This is based on a series of sermons that he preached in 1739, this book was his attempt to write a systematic treatment of Christian theology that would stand the test of time. It reviews human history in the light of God's plan of redemption through Christ - that all of history was overseen by God and worked toward that end.
His son, Jonathan Edwards, Jr., described it as "A body of divinity, in a new method, and in the form of a history; in which he was the first to show, how remarkable events, in all ages from the fall to the present times, recorded in sacred and profane history, were adapted to promote the work of redemption' and then to trace, by the light of scripture prophecy, how the same work should yet further be carried on even to the end of the world." - Preface to the New Haven edition of 1773.
