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An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in…
An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion and the advancement of Christ's Kingdom on earth, pursuant to Scripture-promises and prophecies concerning the last time. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Minister of the Gospel at Northampton. ; With a preface by several ministers.
printed for D. Henchman, 1748
Part 2: MOTIVES to a Compliance with what is proposed in the Memorial.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Scriptures don't only direct and encourage us in general to pray for the Holy Spirit above all Things else, but it is the expressly revealed Will of God, that his Church should be very much in Prayer for that glorious Out-pouring of the Spirit that is to be in the latter Days, and the Things that shall be accomplished by it. God speaking of that blessed Event, Ezek. xxxvi. under the Figure of cleansing the House of Israel from all their Iniquities, planting and building their waste ⟨p. 56⟩and ruined Places, and making them to become like the Garden of Eden, and filling them with Men like a Flock, like the holy Flock, the Flock of Jerusalem in her solemn Feasts (wherein he doubtless has Respect to the same glorious Restoration and Advancement of his Church that is spoken of in the next Chapter, and in all the following Chapters to the End of the Book) he says, Ver. 37. Thus saith the Lord, I will yet for this be enquired of by the House of Israel, to do it for them. Which doubtless implies, that it is the Will of God that extraordinary Prayerfulness in his People for this Mercy should precede the Bestowment of it.
The Scriptures don't only direct and encourage us in general to pray for the Holy Spirit above all Things else, but it is the expresly revealed Will of God, that his Church should be very much in Prayer for that glorious Out-pouring of the Spirit that is to be in the latter Days, and the Things that shall be accomplished by it. God speaking of that blessed Event, Ezek. xxxvi. under the Figure of cleansing the House of Israel from all their Iniquities, planting and building their waste ⟨p. 56⟩and ruined Places, and making them to become like the Garden of Eden, and filling them with Men like a Flock, like the holy Flock, the Flock of Jerusalem in her solemn Feasts (wherein he doubtless has Respect to the same glorious Restoration and Advancement of his Church that is spoken of in the next Chapter, and in all the following Chapters to the End of the Book) he says, Ver. 37. Thus saith the Lord, I will yet for this be enquired of by the House of Israel, to do it for them. Which doubtless implies, that it is the Will of God that extraordinary Prayerfulness in his People for this Mercy should precede the Bestowment of it.