N04757:119
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.
Scripture-Instances and Examples of Success in Prayer give great Encouragement to pray for this Mercy. Most of the remarkable Deliverances and Restorations of the Church of God, that we have Account of in the Scripture, were in Answer to Prayer. So was the Redemption of the Church of God from the Egyptian B••d•ge; Exod. ii.23. and iii.7. The great Restoration of the ⟨p. 66⟩Church in the latter Day, is often spoken of as resembled by this; as in Isai. lxiv.1,—4.,—xi.11, 15, 16. —xliii.2, 3, 16,—19.—li.10, 11, 15.—lxiii.11, 12, 13. Zech. x.10, 11. Hos. ii.14, 15. It was in Answer to Prayer, that the Sun stood still over Gibeon, and the Moon in the Valley of Aijalon, and God's People obtained that great Victory over their Enemies: In which wonderful Miracle, God seemed to have some Respect to a future more glorious Event to be accomplished for the christian Church, in the Day of her Victory over her Enemies, in the latter Days; even that Event foretold Isai. lx.20. Thy Sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy Moon withdraw itself. It was in Answer to Prayer, that God delivered his Church from the mighty Host of the Assyrians, in Hezekiah's Time; which Dispensation is abundantly made use of, as a Type of the great Things God will do for the christian Church in the latter Days, in the Prophecies of Isaiah. The Restoration of the Church of God from the Babylonish Captivity, as abundantly appears both by Scripture Prophecies and Histories, was in Answer to extraordinary Prayer; see Jer. xxix.10,—14. and l.4, 5. Dan. ix. throughout. Ezra viii.21, &c.