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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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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.
GOD has already put that Honour upon the other Continent, that CHRIST was born there literally, and there made the Purchase of Redemption: So, as Providence observes a Kind of equal Distribution of Things, 'tis not unlikely that the great spiritual Birth of CHRIST, and the most glorious Application of Redemption is to begin in this: As the elder Sister brought forth Judah, of whom came CHRIST, and so she was the Mother of CHRIST; But the younger Sister, after long Barrenness, brought forth Joseph and Benjamin, the beloved Children. Joseph, that had the most glorious Apparel, the Coat of many Colours, who was separated from his Brethren, and was exalted to such Glory out of a dark Dungeon, and fed and saved the World, when ready to perish with Famine, and was as a fruitful Bough by a ⟨p. 99⟩