A

HISTORY

Of the WORK of

REDEMPTION.

CONTAINING,

The Outlines of a Body of Divinity, 、

In a Method entirely new.

By the late REVEREND

Mr JONATHAN EDWARDS,

Prefident of the College of New Jersey.

EDINBURGH:

Printed for W. GRAY, Edinburgh, and J. BUCKLAND

and G. KEITH, London.

MDCCLXXIV.

PRE E F A C E.

T has long been defired by the friends of

IT

Mr Edwards, that a number of his ma→ nufcripts fhould be publifhed; but the dif advantage under which all pofthumous publications must neceffarily appear, and the difficulty of getting any confiderable work printed in this infant country hitherto, have proved fufficient obstacles to the execution of fuch a propofal. The first of these obstacles made me doubt, for a confiderable time after these manufcripts came into my hands, whether I could, confiftently with that regard which I owe to the honour of fo worthy a parent, fuffer any of them to appear in the world. However, being diffident of my own fentiments, and doubtful whether I were not over-jealous in this mat ter, I determined to fubmit to the opinion of gentlemen, who are friends both to the character of Mr Edwards and to the cause of truth. The confequence was, that they gave their advice for publishing them.

The other obftacle was removed by a gen tleman in the church of Scotland, who was formerly a correfpondent of Mr Edwards. He engaged a bookfeller to undertake the work, and alfo fignified his defire that these following difcourfes in particular might be made public.