An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in…

God has Respect to the Prayers of his Saints in all his Government of the World; as we may observe b• the Representation made, Rev. viii, at the Beginning. There we read of seven Angels standing before the Throne of God, and receiving of him seven Trumpets, at the sounding of which, great and mighty Changes were to be brought to pass in the World, through many successive Ages. But when these Angels had received their Trumpets, they must stand still, and all must be in Silence, not one of 'em must be allowed to sound, 'till the Prayers of the Saints are attended to. The Ange• of the Covenant, as a glorious High Priest, comes and stands at the Altar, with much Incense, to offer with the Prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar, before the Throne; and the Smoke of the Incense, with the Prayers of the Saints, ascends up with Acceptance before God, out of the Angel's Hand: And then the Angels prepare themselves to sound. And God, in the Events of every Trumpet, remembers those Prayers: As appears at last, by the great and glorious Things he accomplishes ⟨p. 63⟩for his Church, in the Issue of all, in Answer to these Prayers, in the Event of the last Trumpet, which brings on the Glory of the latter Days, when these Prayers shall be turned into joyful Praises. Rev. xi.15, 16, 17. And the seventh Angel sounded; and there were great Voices in Heaven, Saying, The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty Elders, which sat before God on their Seats, fell upon their Faces, and worshipped God, saying, We give thee Thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and wast and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee thy great Power, and hast reigned. Since it is thus, that it is the Pleasure of God so to honour his People, as to carry on all the Designs of his Kingdom in this Way, viz. By the Prayers of his Saints, This gives us great Reason to think, that whenever the Time comes that God gives an extraordinary Spirit of Prayer for the promised Advancement of his Kingdom on Earth, (which is God's great Aim in all preceding Providences, and which is the main Thing that the Spirit of Prayer in the Saints aims at) then the fulfilling this Event is nigh.

God has Respect to the Prayers of his Saints in all his Government of the World; as we may observe b the Representation made, Rev. viii, at the Beginning. There we read of seven Angels standing before the Throne of God, and receiving of him seven Trumpets, at the sounding of which, great and mighty Changes were to be brought to pass in the World, through many successive Ages. But when these Angels had received their Trumpets, they must stand still, and all must be in Silence, not one of 'em must be allowed to sound, 'till the Prayers of the Saints are attended to. The Ange of the Covenant, as a glorious High Priest, comes and stands at the Altar, with much Incense, to offer with the Prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar, before the Throne; and the Smoke of the Incense, with the Prayers of the Saints, ascends up with Acceptance before God, out of the Angel's Hand: And then the Angels prepare themselves to sound. And God, in the Events of every Trumpet, remembers those Prayers: As appears at last, by the great and glorious Things he accomplishes