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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.
So that the three first Petitions of the Lord's Prayer are in Effect no other than Requests for the bringing on this glorious Day.— And as the Lord's Prayer begins with asking for this, in the three first Petitions, so it concludes with it, in these Words, For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory for ever. Amen. Which Words imply a Request that God would take to himself his great Power, and reign, and manifest his Power and Glory in the World. Thus Christ teaches us that it becomes his Disciples to seek this above all other Things, and make it the first and the last in their Prayers, and that every Petition should be put up in a Subordination to the Advancement of God's Kingdom and Glory in the World.
Besides what has been observed of the Lord's Prayer, if we look through' the whole Bible, and observe all the Examples of Prayer that we find there recorded, we shall find so many Prayers for no other Mercy, as for the Deliverance, Restoration and Prosperity of the Church, and the Advancement of God's Glory and Kingdom of Grace in the World. If we well consider the Prayers that we find recorded in the Book of Psalms, I believe we shall see Reason to think, that a very great, if not the greater Part of them, are Prayers uttered, either in the Name of Christ, or in the Name of the Church, for such a Mercy: And undoubtedly the greatest Part of that Book of Psalms, is made up of Prayers for this Mercy, Prophecies of it, and prophetical Praises for it.
Besides what has been observed of the Lord's Prayer, if we look thro' the whole Bible, and observe all the Examples of Prayer that we find there recorded, we shall find so many Prayers for no other Mercy, as for the Deliverance, Restoration and Prosperity of the Church, and the Advancement of God's Glory and Kingdom of Grace in the World. If we well consider the Prayers that we find recorded in the Book of Psalms, I believe we shall see Reason to think, that a very great, if not the greater Part of them, are Prayers uttered, either in the Name of Christ, or in the Name of the Church, for such a Mercy: And undoubtedly the greatest Part of that Book of Psalms, is made up of Prayers for this Mercy, Prophecies of it, and prophetical Praises for it.