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Some thoughts concerning the present revival of religion in New-England, and the way in…
Some thoughts concerning the present revival of religion in New-England, and the way in which it ought to be acknowledged and promoted, humbly offered to the public, in a treatise on that subject. : In five parts; Part I. Showing that the work that has of late been going on in this land, is a glorious work of God. Part II. Showing the obligations that all are under, to acknowledge [sic], rejoice in and promote this work, and the great danger of the contrary. Part III. Showing in many instances, wherein the subjects, or zealous promoters, of this work have been injuriously blamed. Part IV. Showing what things are to be corrected or avoided, in promoting this work, or in our behaviour under it. Part V. showing positively what ought to be done to promote this work. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ at Northampton. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]Some thoughts concerning the present revival of religion in New-England, and the way in which it ought to be acknowledged and promoted, humbly offered to the publick, in a treatise on that subject. : In five parts; Part I. Shewing that the work that has of late been going on in this land, is a glorious work of God. Part II. Shewing the obligations that all are under, to acknowlege [sic], rejoice in and promote this work, and the great danger of the contrary. Part III. Shewing in many instances, wherein the subjects, or zealous promoters, of this work have been injuriously blamed. Part IV. Shewing what things are to be corrected or avoided, in promoting this work, or in our behaviour under it. Part V. shewing positively what ought to be done to promote this work. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ at Northampton. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1742
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And as it is not that Work of GOD that is chiefly intended in this Chapter, but that more glorious Work that should be in the latter Ages of the Christian Church, therefore some other Part of the World is here intended by the Isles, that should be as Europe then was, far separated from that Part of the World where the Church had before been, by the Sea, and with which it can have no Communication but by the Ships of Tarshish. And what is chiefly intended is not the British Isles, nor any Isles near the other Continent; for they are spoken of as at a great Distance from that Part of the World where the Church had 'till then been. This Prophecy therefore seems plainly to point out America, as the first Fruits of that glorious Day.
GOD has made as it were two Worlds here below, The old and the new, (according to the Names they are now called by,) two great habitable Continents, far separated one from the other; The latter is but newly discovered, it was formerly wholly unknown, from Age to Age, and is as it were now but newly created: It has been, 'till of late, wholly the Possession of Satan, the Church of GOD having never been in it, as it has been in the other Continent, from the beginning of the World. This new World is probably now discovered, that the new and most glorious State of GOD's Church on Earth might commence there; That GOD might in it begin a new World in a spiritual Respect, when he creates the new Heavens and new Earth.
GOD has made as it were two Worlds here below, The old and the new, (according to the Names they are now called by,) two great habitable Continents, far separated one from the other; The latter is but newly discover'd, it was formerly wholly unknown, from Age to Age, and is as it were now but newly created: It has been, 'till of late, wholly the Possession of Satan, the Church of GOD having never been in it, as it has been in the other Continent, from the beginning of the World. This new World is probably now discovered, that the new and most glorious State of GOD's Church on Earth might commence there; That GOD might in it begin a new World in a spiritual Respect, when he creates the new Heavens and new Earth.