BM-KJV and JE-2 Nephi 2

Annotation of 2 Nephi 2 – preliminary

2 Nephi 2 is a good example because it shows that a high percentage of its language is also KJV language. Few of the KJV words/phrases are not also found in Edwards, including the so-called "blended" passages.

The blue Book of Mormon words/phrases in the annotation are nonbiblical and also not found in Edwards. In some cases noted below, the nonbiblical language is close to Edwards (e.g., plural instead of singular). There are several examples in the Book of Mormon of paraphrased or misquoted passages from the KJV that are identical to paraphrased or misquoted KJV passages in Edwards' works.

The red words/phrases are nonbiblical Book of Mormon wording that are also found in Edwards' works as available on the Yale database, which includes most but not all of the 1808 edition, as well as material not included in the 1808 edition.

Purple are nonbiblical Book of Mormon words/phrases similar to Edwards.

Naturally, Edwards is not the only person who ever used this nonbiblical Book of Mormon terminology. English is a common language or we couldn't understand one another. But the ready availability of Edwards' works in Palmyra during Joseph's youth indicates that Edwards was a possible source for Joseph's vocabulary that he used when translating the plates.

Bold = KJV 

Blue = nonbiblical BofM/D&C/PGP w/o JE 

Red = nonbiblical BofM/D&C/PGP and JE 

Purple = nonbiblical BofM/D&C/PGP similar to JE

Chapter 2

Redemption comes through the Holy Messiah—Freedom of choice (agency) is essential to existence and progression—Adam fell that men might be—Men are free to choose liberty and eternal life. About 588–570 B.C.

1 And now, Jacob, I speak unto you: Thou art my firstborn in the days of[1] my tribulation[2] in the wilderness[3]. And behold, in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much sorrow[4], because of the rudeness[5] of thy brethren.

2 Nevertheless, Jacob, my firstborn in the wilderness, thou knowest the greatness of God[6]; and he shall consecrate[7] thine afflictions for thy gain.

3 Wherefore, thy soul shall be blessed, and thou shalt dwell safely[8] with thy brother, Nephi; and thy days shall be spent[9] in the service of[10] thy God. Wherefore, I know that thou art redeemed, because of the righteousness[11] of thy Redeemer; for thou hast beheld that in the fulness of time[12] he cometh to bring salvation[13] unto men.

4 And thou hast beheld in thy youth his glory; wherefore, thou art blessed even as they unto whom he shall minister in the flesh[14]; for the Spirit is the same[15], yesterday, today, and forever[16]. And the way is prepared[17] from the fall of man[18], and salvation is free[19].

5 And men are instructed sufficiently[20] that they know good from evil[21]. And the law is given unto men. And by the law no flesh is justified[22]; or, by the law men are cut off. Yea, by the temporal law[23] they were cut off; and also, by the spiritual law[24] they perish from[25] that which is good, and become miserable forever[26].

6 Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.

7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin[27], to answer the ends[28] of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit[29]; and unto none else can the ends of the law[30] be answered[31].

8 Wherefore, how great the importance[32] to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth[33], that they may know that there is no flesh[34] that can dwell in the presence of God[35], save it be through the merits[36], and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah[37], who layeth down his life according to the flesh[38], and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit[39], that he may bring to pass[40] the resurrection of the dead, being the first[41] that should rise[42].

9 Wherefore, he is the firstfruits[43] unto God, inasmuch as he shall make intercession[44] for all the children of men; and they that believe in him shall be saved.

10 And because of the intercession for all, all men come[45] unto God; wherefore, they stand in the presence[46] of him, to be judged[47] of him according to the truth and holiness[48] which is in him[49]. Wherefore, the ends of the law which the Holy One[50] hath given, unto the inflicting[51] of the punishment which is affixed[52], which punishment that is affixed is in opposition[53] to that of the happiness which is affixed, to answer the ends of the atonement—

11 For it must needs be[54], that there is an opposition in all things[55]. If not so[56], my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass[57], neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery[58], neither good nor bad[59]. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound[60] in one; wherefore, if it should be one body[61] it must needs remain as dead[62], having no life[63] neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility[64].

12 Wherefore, it must needs have[65] been created for a thing of naught[66]; wherefore there would have been no purpose[67] in the end of its creation[68]. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God[69] and his eternal purposes[70], and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God[71].

13 And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin[72]. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness[73]. And if there be[74] no righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery. And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth[75]; for there could have been[76] no creation of things[77], neither to act nor to be acted upon[78]; wherefore, all things must have vanished away[79].

14 And now, my sons, I speak unto you these things for your profit and learning[80]; for there is a God[81], and he hath created all things[82], both the heavens and the earth[83], and all things that in them are[84], both things to act and things to be acted upon[85].

15 And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man[86], after he had created our first parents[87], and the beasts of the field[88] and the fowls of the air[89], and in fine[90], all things which are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition[91]; even the forbidden fruit[92] in opposition to the tree of life[93]; the one being sweet[94] and the other bitter.

16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself[95]. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed[96] by the one or the other[97].

17 And I, Lehi, according to the things which I have read, must needs suppose[98] that an angel of God, according to that which is written, had fallen from heaven[99]; wherefore, he became a devil[100], having sought that which was evil before God[101].

18 And because he had fallen from heaven, and had become miserable forever, he sought also the misery of[102] all mankind[103]. Wherefore, he said unto Eve, yea, even that old serpent[104], who [1830 which] is the devil[105], who is the father of all lies[106], wherefore he said: Partake of[107] the forbidden fruit[108], and ye shall not die[109], but ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil[110].

19 And after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit they were driven out of[111] the garden of Eden[112], to till the earth[113].

20 And they have brought forth[114] children[115]; yea, even the family of all the earth[116].

21 And the days of the children of men were prolonged[117], according to the will of God[118], that they might repent[119] while in the flesh[120]; wherefore, their state became a state of probation[121], and their time was lengthened[122], according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. For he gave commandment that all men must repent[123]; for he showed unto all men that they were lost[124], because of the transgression of[125] their parents.

22 And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed[126] he would not have fallen[127], but he would have remained[128] in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state[129] in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever[130], and had no end.

23 And they would have had no children[131]; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence[132], having no joy[133], for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.

24 But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of[134] him who knoweth all things.

25 Adam fell[135] that men might be[136]; and men are, that they might have joy[137].

26 And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time[138], that he may redeem[139] the children of men from the fall[140]. And because that they are redeemed from the fall[141] they have become free forever[142], knowing good from evil[143]; to act for themselves[144] and not to be acted upon, save it be by the punishment of the law[145] at the great and last day[146], according to the commandments which God hath given.

27 Wherefore, men are free[147] according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient[148] unto man. And they are free to choose[149] liberty and eternal life[150], through the great Mediator[151] of all men, or to choose captivity and death[152], according to the captivity and power of the devil[153]; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable[154] like unto himself.

28 And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the great Mediator, and hearken unto his great commandments[155]; and be faithful unto his words, and choose eternal life[156], according to the will of his Holy Spirit;

29 And not choose eternal death[157], according to the will of the flesh[158] and the evil which is therein, which giveth the spirit of the devil[159] power to captivate[160], to bring you down to hell[161], that he may reign over you[162] in his own kingdom[163].

30 I have spoken these few words[164] unto you all, my sons, in the last days of my probation[165]; and I have chosen the good part[166], according to the words of the prophet. And I have none other object[167] save it be the everlasting welfare[168] of your souls[169]. Amen.

(2 Nephi 2–2:30)

[1] OT (152) NT (26) BM (39) DC (24) PGP (5) JE (300)

[2] OT (4) NT (22) BM (12) DC (15) PGP (6) JE (200)

[3] OT (134) NT (23) BM (109) DC (11) JE (400+)

[4] OT (1) BM (6) DC (1) JE (20) JE: « never did he suffer so much Pain in his body nor so much sorrow in his mind” “they met with a Great deal much sorrow and affliction in such a way”

[5] BM (3) JE (3) JE: “Some persons delight in iniquity; they take pleasure in rudeness , and intemperate practices” Cf: But though I be rude in speech (2 Corinthians 11:6)

[6] BM (2) JE (30) JE: “ the infinite greatness of God is set forth by his being greater than the whole universe”

[7] OT (39) NT (2) BM (23) DC (34) JE (20) JE : « "Arise, thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thine hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth." Zephaniah 3:12, "I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord”

[8] OT (9) BM (3) JE (7)

[9] OT (1) BM (1)

[10] OT (3) BM (6) DC (1) PGP (1) JE (100) ; service of God BM (4) DC (1) JE (20) JE: “there is perfect liberty in the service of God”

[11] BM (2)

[12] BM (2) JE (4) JE (paraphrasing) “Ephesians 1:10. "That in the dispensation of the fulness of time” Cf: “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times” (Ephesians 1:10)

[13] BM (2) JE (2) JE: “he would make bare his own arm, that that may bring salvation”

[14] OT (2) NT (29) BM (23) DC (17) PGP (5) JE (120)

[15] BM (1) JE (2) JE: “'Tis very plain, that the seal of the Spirit is the same thing with the earnest of the Spirit” “That is, we are changed to glory (or to a shining brightness) as Moses was, from or by God's glory or shining, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, i.e. which glory or shining is the Spirit of the Lord. This word that is translated "from" with respect to glory, and "by" with respect to the Spirit , is the same in the original—'tis ᾽από both—and therefore would have been more intelligibly translated, "We are changed by glory into glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 

[16] BM (7) DC (1) JE (7) JE (paraphrasing) « Christ is the same yesterday , today , and forever (Hebrews 13:8)” Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13:8)

[17] BM (4) JE (1) JE: “when once the heart is humbled, then the way is prepared for comfort”

[18] BM (5) JE (100) JE: “The first is one of preparation and extends from the fall of man to the coming of Christ” : Shall the angels be so engaged about this salvation of Christ ever since the fall of man”

[19] BM (1)

[20] “instructed sufficiently” BM (1) “sufficiently instructed” JE (3) JE: “they thought me sufficiently instructed in the mind of Christ to teach them” “When we are sufficiently instructed that all these things were typical” “they ought all to be sufficiently instructed, that they must be Christians really”

[21] BM (5) PGP (1) “good from evil” BM (8) PGP (1) JE (1) JE: “disting. Good from evil”

[22] “no flesh is justified” BM (1) Cf. “Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:20) JE: “"By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified"

[23] BM (1)

[24] BM (1)

[25] OT (10) BM (1) JE (25)

[26] BM (2) JE (20) JE: “Something must be done or you are miserable forever”

[27] BM (1) JE (10) JE: “The Messiah is expressly spoken of as being like a lamb, in his being slain and offered as a sacrifice for sin (Isaiah 53)” “by his own suffering and by offering up himself a sacrifice for sin “ Cf: “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter”

(Isaiah 53:7) JE: “By which two things are manifest: 1. that without a sacrifice for sin there is no deliverance from punishment; and 2. that there is no other sacrifice for sin by which sinners can be delivered but that of Christ.”

[28] BM (2) JE (7)

[29] BM (6) DC (1) JE (2) JE : « to have your heart humbled for sin, and so to have a broken heart and a contrite spirit” JE paraphrasing: “mourning for sin with " a broken heart and contrite spirit" Psalms 51:17” Cf. 18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

(Psalms 34:18)

[30] BM (4) « end of the law” NT (1) JE (20) Cf. “4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Romans 10:4) JE “They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law , as a schoolmaster, to fit them for Christ, is defeated”

[31] “end(s) of the law” answered: BM (2) JE (1) JE: “it's certain that Christ by his obedience has done much more honor to God's authority than Adam by his obedience could have done; and the end of the law being hereby answered, God is satisfied.”

[32] BM (1)

[33] OT (7) NT (1) BM (6) DC (24) PGP (2) JE (70)

[34] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “What instance is there in the Scripture, or indeed any other writing, when the meaning is only the much greater part, where this meaning is signified in such a manner, by repeating such expressions, "They are all . . . they are all . . . they are all . . . together . . . every one . . . all the world," joined to multiplied negative terms, to show the universality to be without exception; saying, "There is no flesh . . . there is none . . . there is none . . . there is none," four times over; besides the addition of "no, not one . . . no, not one," once and again!”

[35] BM (2) DC (1)

[36] BM (2) JE (3) JE: “ The prayer of faith is as a fragrant savor to God through the merits of him in whom that faith is “ “a new dignity is conferred upon sincere obedience by the death of Christ in such a way that what previously had not been a congruous condition of justification is now rendered congruous by a new bestowal of dignity through the merits of Christ. But it is plainly a contradiction to say that although the merits of Christ have in no way changed the very nature of sincere obedience nor made it better in itself, nevertheless they have rendered the same obedience congruent to justification which before was not congruent to it.”

[37] BM (1)

[38] NT (7) BM (12) DC (1) JE (40)

[39] NT (1) BM (1) DC (2) JE (1)

[40] OT (2) BM (5) DC (6) PGP (1) JE (80)

[41] NT (1) Bm (1) DC (1) JE (30)

[42] OT (2) NT (2) BM (5) JE (45) JE: at first despised, abused, rejected and put to death; but should rise to immortal life” “It was necessary in order to Christ's obtaining the end and effect of his purchase of redemption that he should rise from the dead”  Cf. « 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead” (Acts 26:23)

[43] OT (25) NT (7) BM (1) JE (20) “These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.” (Revelation 14:4) JE: “And then 'tis most reasonable to suppose that Christ will be the firstfruits in his ascension in like manner as in his resurrection. But Christ is the firstfruits in his resurrection with regard to what the saints shall be the subjects of at the second coming of Christ.”

[44] OT (2) NT (1) BM (2) JE (10)

[45] NT (1) BM (1) JE (2)

[46] NT (1) BM (2) JE (1)

[47] NT (1) BM (22) DC (1) JE (100+)

[48] BM (1) JE (4) JE: “We know, that God never will desert the cause of truth and holiness , nor suffer the gates of hell to prevail against his church”

[49] NT (1) BM (2) JE (5) JE : « that which makes the Lord amiable, is his holiness, which is in him to make him holy too”

[50] OT (3 NT (4) BM (47) DC (2) JE (100+)

[51] BM (1) JE (30) JE: “a conviction of conscience of their deserving the punishment, or of the justice of God in inflicting it” “God must be considered not only as merciful, but as just also, and capable of inflicting punishments, as well as dispensing rewards.” “there is a disposition in Every natural man to deny the Justice of Inflicting Eternal Punishment upon him for his sins”

[52] BM (6) DC (2) JE (20) JE: “in both places God is speaking of the punishment of sin, its proper recompense as rebellion against God, that which is by a stated, known rule affixed to it”

[53] BM (4) DC (1) PGP (1) JE (100s) JE : “The death that comes by Adam is set in opposition to the life and happiness that comes by Christ” “his persevering obedience, was to have had everlasting life and happiness, in perfect holiness, union with his Maker, and enjoyment of his favor, and this was the life which was to be confirmed by the tree of life; then doubtless the death threatened in case of disobedience, which stands in direct opposition to this, was a being given over to everlasting wickedness and misery, in separation from God and in enduring his wrath.”

[54] OT (2) NT (3) BM (29) DC (23) JE (200)

[55] OT (5) NT (27) BM (21) DC (48) JE (100+) JE : ” The two expressions in this verse, "beareth all things, endureth all things," in our English translation, are in common use much of the same import. But it is not so in the original. The expression which is translated, "endureth all things," is in the original panta hypomenei, which in the most liberal translation is, "remains under all things"; that is, it remains under all opposition. Whatever attempts are made against it, whatever assaults are made upon it, yet it remains, it endures, it does not cease, but remains under all this opposition.”

[56] BM (4) JE (3) JE: “if not so there might be more hope “

[57] OT (1) NT (1) BM (9) DC (4) JE (100+) JE : « Christ here foretells that prosperous and glorious state that the church shall be in the latter days: “the righteousness thereof [shall] go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.” And in the first verse, Christ, who is the head of the church, [says] concerning himself that he will not hold his peace till this glorious state of things shall be brought to pass.”

[58] BM (3)

[59] OT (1) BM (1) JE (8)

[60] OT (1) BM (2) JE (40)

[61] NT (11) BM (9) JE (100+)

[62] BM (1)

[63] BM (1) JE (1) JE : « your heart has been harder than the very stones. having no Life in it”

[64] BM (1) JE (40) JE : « But that stupidity, which is opposed to this awakening, is upheld chiefly by these two things: their insensibility of their guilt, in what is past, and present; and their flattering themselves, as to what is future.”

[65] NT (2) BM (5) JE (15)

[66] spelled “thing of nought” OT (4) 1830 BM (4) JE (3); spelled “thing of naught” BM (4); “naught” OT *(3) BM (18) DC (7) PGP (3) JE (60); “nought” OT (25) NT (11) JE (80) 1830 BM (18)

[67] OT (1) BM (1) JE (100)

[68] BM (1) DC (1) JE: “must be the end of the creation, the great end, the very end. If it were not for this, all those vast bodies we see ordered with so excellent skill, so according to the nicest rules of proportion, according to such laws of gravity and motion, would be all vanity, or good for nothing and to no purpose at all. For religion is the very business, the noble business of intelligent beings, and for this end God has placed us on this earth.”

[69] OT (1) NT (5) BM (3) PGP (1) JE (100+) « 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” (1 Corinthians 1:19)

[70] BM (5) JE (4) JE: “hence it will follow, that his designs or purposes are not things formed anew, founded on any new views or appearances, but are all eternal purposes.”

[71] BM (12) DC (1) JE (100+) JE: “There are many of the divine attributes that, if God had not created the world, never would have had any exercise: the power of God, the wisdom and prudence and contrivance of God, and the goodness and mercy and grace of God, and the justice of God . “

[72] BM (2) JE (10) JE: “According to the opinion of the ancients, none are subject to death, but those which have sinned: for where there is no sin , there is no death." “If there be no sin , then we have no cause to be angry.”

[73] BM (3) JE (10) JE: “If these things are so, it will certainly follow, that the first choosing to be righteous is no righteous choice; there is no righteousness or holiness in it”

[74] “if there be no” OT (1) NT (2) BM (5) JE (100) JE: “. For nothing can counterbalance evil, but good. If evil be in one scale, and we put a great deal into the other, sincere and earnest desires, and many and great endeavors; yet if there be no real goodness in all, there is no weight in it; and so it does nothing towards balancing the real weight which is in the opposite scale.” “But if there be no punishment of sin in another world, men need not be very much afraid to offend God and to go contrary to his will, and affront him and rebel against him, and contemn and mock and blaspheme him: I say, if there be no punishment in a future state, men need not be much afraid of such things.”

[75] BM (1) JE (1)

[76] BM (5) JE (8) JE: “there could have been no circumstances or means that he could have been the subject of”

[77] BM (1)

[78] BM (3) JE (30) JE: “Whence he infers that it is impossible for a man to act and be acted upon.” “He may indeed act upon the mind of a natural man, but he acts in the mind of a saint as an indwelling vital principle. He acts upon the mind of an unregenerate person as an extrinsic, occasional agent”

[79] BM (1) JE (15) Note: “vanished” OT (1) NT (1) BM (1) JE (50) JE : « After the first heaven and first earth, the type and shadow, has vanished away, then the antitype succeeds.

[80] BM (2) DC (1)

[81] OT (2) BM (17) DC (1) JE (30)

[82] NT (2) BM (7) PGP (1) JE (20)

[83] OT (7) NT (1) BM (6) DC (5) PGP (3) JE (55)

[84] BM (5) DC (2) JE (16) [mostly different grammatically]

[85] BM (3) JE (7) JE: “We do not form our simple ideas; we receive them from external objects that act upon us. God is impassable and eternal, and so cannot be acted upon by other objects. “

[86] BM (2) JE () JE: “No law, nor system of laws, can possibly answer the end and purpose of a law, till the grand question, what is the chief happiness and end of man , be determined, and so cleared up, that every man may be fully satisfied about it.” Yale commentary: Pastorally, Edwards explains the entire undertaking rather simply: we must have some idea of what we are worshipping in order to worship in a meaningful way. On a higher plane, we must be able to contemplate God in some sense, as this exercise is nothing less than the ultimate and chief end of man .”

[87] BM (13) JE (150) JE: “Our first parents who were naked were clothed at the expense of life. Beasts were slain and 1.21r. resigned up their lives, a sacrifice to God to afford clothing for him to cover their nakedness. So doth Christ, to afford clothing for our..”

[88] OT (29) BM (1) DC (5) PGP (1) JE (25)

[89] OT (9) NT (7) BM (3) DC (6) PGP (1) JE (20) with “beasts of the field” OT (1) BM (1) DC (2) JE (1)

[90] “in fine” meaning in summary BM (18) JE (10) JE: “And in fine , love would dispose men to do to others as they would that others should do to them.”

[91] BM (2) JE (45) JE: “Sin is contrary to reason and so a violation of the law of nature, which is the law of reason; and 'tis an opposition to the special end of God in his creation of man, which is that he might glorify God actively. The very nature of sin is enmity against God.”

[92] BM (6) DC (1) JE (100) JE: “ If man had stood, and had not eat of the forbidden fruit , and had kept the law, he was to have eat of the tree of life and so to live forever.” “I believe that God at first made man in his own image, and entered into a covenant of life with him, forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; but our first parents fell by eating the forbidden fruit , exposing themselves and their posterity to the wrath of God and eternal death; but God in mercy sent his Son in our nature to redeem & save us.”

[93] OT (7) NT (3) BM (16) PGP (4) JE (100+) JE: “If Adam, for his persevering obedience, was to have had everlasting life and happiness, in perfect holiness, union with his Maker, and enjoyment of his favor, and this was the life which was to be confirmed by the tree of life; then doubtless the death threatened in case of disobedience, which stands in direct opposition to this, was a being given over to everlasting wickedness and misery, in separation from God and in enduring his wrath.”

[94] BM (1)

[95] BM (2) JE (4) JE: “he may be said to act for himself and to make himself his end”

[96] OT (2) NT (1) BM (1) JE (20)

[97] BM (1) JE (65) JE: “when we die, there is but two places to go to: heaven or hell, and to one or the other of them we must all go”

[98] BM (2)

[99] OT (2) BM (3) JE (4) OT: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! (Isaiah 14:12) JE: “This fall of the devils is in Scripture compared to the falling of the stars from heaven, and God's swiftly casting down fire as in lightning. See Isaiah 14:12, "How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer, son of the morning"

[100] BM (1)

[101] BM (2)

[102] “misery of all mankind” BM (1) JE () JE: “The Apostle in the preceding part of this epistle had largely treated of the sinfulness and misery of all mankind” “opposing with all his might everything that is good, seeking the destruction and misery of all mankind with boundless and insatiable cruelty; on which account he is called Satan, the Adversary”

[103] OT (1) BM (3) JE (100)

[104] NT (2) BM (2) DC (2) JE (70)

[105] NT (1) BM (1) JE: “There he explains who the serpent was that beguiled Eve: "the dragon, that old serpent , who is the devil and Satan."

[106] “father of all lies” BM (2) PGP (1) “father of lies” BM (1) JE (4) JE: “He is a liar and the father of lies , and the father of all the sin and wickedness that is or ever has been in the world.” NT: “When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

[107] “partake of” BM (26) DC (7) JE (300) JE: “They Partake of the same fruits of the sin of these fall of our first Parents and their bodies are liable to the same Changes as they are born like other men so they die like other men

[108] “partake of the forbidden fruit” BM (2)

[109] OT (1) BM (1) “ye shall not surely die” OT (1) PGP (1) JE (3)

[110] BM (2); “ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” OT (1) PGP (1) JE (5) JE: “it is evident that by the word ELOHIM a plurality of persons in the Godhead is signified. To make this evident, I would repeat the words of Dr. Knight… ‘It may be worthwhile to reflect on the words which the serpent spake to deceive our first parents. 'God doth know (saith he) that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods (or rather as God, the one God), knowing good and evil .' For the word Elohim is so used from the beginning of Genesis to this very place for the one God, and the design of the tempter was to make them believe that by tasting of the fruit, which God had forbidden, they might come to the knowledge and wisdom of God”

[111] BM (10) JE (20) JE: “Without doubt, when Adam was driven out of paradise and the flaming sword was placed by the tree of life”

[112] OT (5) BM (5) DC (1) PGP (8) JE (25) OT : « Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.  So he drove out the man” (Genesis 3:23–24)

[113] BM (5) PGP (1)

[114] OT (60) NT (14) BM (34) DC (4) PGP (3) JE (200+)

[115] “brought forth children” BM (1)

[116] BM (1)

[117] OT (9) BM (4) DC (1) JE (20) OT: “that thy days may be prolonged” (Deuteronomy 5:16)

[118] NT (3) BM (3) DC (1) JE (3)

[119] BM (1) DC (1) JE (1) JE: “ And the making such a prayer is not inconsistent with the love of particular persons, and earnestly desiring that they might repent and be appeased and be forgiven.”

[120] BM (1) DC (2) JE (2) JE: “So Christ himself, while in the flesh , was subject to those ordinances”

[121] BM (1) JE (60) JE: “Therefore if absolute decrees are inconsistent with man's liberty as a moral agent, or his liberty in a state of probation , or any liberty whatsoever that he enjoys, it is not on account of any necessity which absolute decrees infer.” “man's state here being only a state of probation , preparation and progression, with respect to the future state”

[122] OT (1) BM (2) JE (2)

[123] BM (1) DC (2) PGP (2)

[124] BM (4)

[125] OT (11) NT (1) BM (4) DC (1) JE (20) with “parents” BM (2) JE (2) JE: “If it be so that God deals most reasonably with us when he holds us guilty for the transgression of our first parents, let everyone see and own his necessity of a Savior, in that every one of the children of Adam have sinned in him and do justly deserve death, yea, eternal death, for that sin”

[126] OT (33) NT (1) BM (4) DC (2) JE (65) Note : with Adam, BM (1) DC (1) JE (10) JE: “If the words had implied, that Adam should die that very day, within twenty-four or twelve hours, or that moment that he transgressed , yet it will by no means follow, that God obliged himself to execute the punishment in its utmost extent on that day. The sentence was in great part executed immediately; he then died spiritually; he lost his innocence and original righteousness

[127] BM (2) DC (1) JE (1) JE: “if we had not have fallen “

[128] NT (1) BM (2) JE (7) JE: “The world would have remained after the fall in such a kind of state had not God have sent the light of revelation.

[129] BM (1) JE (30) JE: “Religion remains much in the same state amongst us that it has lately been” “Therefore while the views or perceptions of the mind remain precisely in the same state , there is no perceivable space or length of time, because no sensible succession at all.”

[130] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “And thus the temple in effect remained forever.”

[131] OT (3) BM (2)

[132] BM (1) JE (8) JE: “The Spirit of God was communicated to our first parents in their state of innocence” “"the moral circumstances of mankind, since the time Adam first turned into the way of transgression, have been very different from a state of innocence”

[133] OT (2) BM (2) JE (5)

[134] NT (2) BM (1) JE (10)

[135] BM (1) PGP (1) JE (7) JE 1808: “To one that thus unbiased reads the Scripture, what Adam fell from is visible, was the state of perfect obedience, which is called justice in the New Testament.”

[136] BM (5) DC (1) JE (7) JE : « And the end of promulgating the gospel is that men might be turned from sin to God, that they might be brought to be partakers of the grace of God”

[137] BM (2)

[138] BM (2) JE (5) JE paraphrasing Eph 1 :10 “"That in the dispensation of the fulness of time , he might gather together in one all things in Christ”  Cf “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times” (Ephesians 1:10) NOTE: “fulness of times” NT (1) DC (10) JE (1)

[139] OT (2) BM (1) JE (2)

[140] BM (5) DC (2) JE (90)

[141] BM (2) JE: “The way that the Work of Redemption with respect to these effects of it respecting the souls of the redeemed is carried on from the fall”

[142] BM (1)

[143] BM (2) See “know good from evil” above.

[144] BM (1) JE (8) JE: “justly conclude, either that men are born guilty, and so are chargeable with sin before they come to act for themselves”

[145] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “the same Justice that will alwaies Remain to Exact the Punishment of the Law of them

[146] BM (6) DC (1) JE (1) JE: “the judgment of that great and last day is not the last judgment.”

[147] BM (1)

[148] OT (7) BM (62) DC (44) JE (80)

[149] BM (1) Cf. JE 1808: “because they have all free will , and therefore may all choose to act so, if they please”

[150] BM (1)

[151] BM (2) JE (2)

[152] BM (1)

[153] BM (7) DC (1) JE (20)

[154] BM (1) JE (55) JE: “ to see them so infatuated and cheated by the devil that they are ignorant of all this, are going to be miserable but are so drunken and intoxicated by the devil's potion that he has given them, that they are not sensible of, poor creatures are led away by the devil to the slaughter”

[155] BM (1) JE (2) JE: “would be careful to conform to those two great commandments , which are the sum of all the ten”

[156] BM (1)

[157] BM (1) JE (100+) JE: “Without doubt the misery of the least of sinners that are damned is as terrible or more terrible than no existence, and such that those that endure it would choose rather to cease to be, and be in a state of eternal nonexistence. Or otherwise, it would not deserve the name of eternal death , nor the promise of eternal life made in the gospel be so considerable and desirable as the sound of it”

[158] NT (1) BM (1) JE (10)

[159] BM (4) JE (15)

[160] BM (1) JE (3)

[161] OT (3) NT (3) BM (11) DC (4) JE (55)

[162] OT (4) BM (1) JE (2)

[163] BM (3) JE (10)

[164] NT (3) BM (7) DC (6) PGP (1) JE (60)

[165] BM (1) JE (1)

[166] BM (1) JE (10)

[167] BM (1) PGP (1) JE (10) JE: “here they are immovably fixed and need no other object to entertain and fill them”

[168] BM (1) JE (5) JE: “ 'tis that wherein man's happiness consists, and on which his everlasting welfare depends.” “ seeing that our everlasting welfare depends on the improvement of time.”

[169] “welfare of your souls” BM (3) JE (2) JE: “you that are concerned for the welfare of your souls” “And you need not be told with what weight the welfare of your souls seemed to lie on his heart, and how he instructed, and reproved, and warned, and exhorted you, with all authority, and with a fatherly tender concern for your eternal good.”