Bless God—Sunday is almost here! We get to go back to church. In order to help us get ready for Sabbath worship, here is Jonathan Edwards, from his, “A History of The Work of Redemption” book. . . .
“ . . . So that Abraham, being the person in whom this foundation is laid, is re-presented in Scripture as though he were the father of all the church, the fa-ther of all them that believe; as it were a root whence the visible church thenceforward through Christ, Abraham’s root and offspring, rose as a tree, distinct from all other plants; of which tree Christ was the Branch of righteous-ness; and from which tree, after Christ came, the natural branches were bro-ken off, and the Gentiles were grafted into the same tree.“So that Abraham still remains the father of the church, or root of the tree, through Christ, his seed. It is the same tree that flourishes from that small be-ginning that was in Abraham’s time, and has in these days of the gospel spread its branches over a great part of the earth, and will fill the whole earth in due time, and at the end of the world shall be transplanted from an earthly soil into the paradise of God."
