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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.
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Dispensations of Providence, which, if considered in all their Circumstances, were so wonderful, and apparently manifesting an extraordinary divine Interposition, that they come perhaps the nearest to a Parallel with God's wonderful Works of Old, in Moses's Joshua's, and Hezekiah's Time, of any that have been in these latter Ages of the World. And it is to my present Purpose to observe, that God was pleased to do great Things for us in both these Instances, in Answer to extraordinary Prayer. Such remarkable Appearances of a Spirit of Prayer, on any particular public Occasion, have not been in the Land, at any Time within my Observation and Memory, as on Occasion of the Affair of Cape-Breton. And 'tis worthy to be noted and remembered, that God sent that great Storm on the Fleet of our Enemies the last Year, that finally dispersed, and utterly confounded them, and caused them wholly to give over their Designs against us, the very Night after our Day of public Fasting and Prayer, for our Protection and their Confusion.
Dispensations of Providence, which, if considered in all their Circumstances, were so wonderful, and apparently manifesting an extraordinary divine Interposition, that they come perhaps the nearest to a Parallel with God's wonderful Works of Old, in Moses's Ioshua's, and Hezekiah's Time, of any that have been in these latter Ages of the World. And it is to my present Purpose to observe, that God was pleased to do great Things for us in both these Instances, in Answer to extraordinary Prayer. Such remarkable Appearances of a Spirit of Prayer, on any particular publick Occasion, have not been in the Land, at any Time within my Observation and Memory, as on Occasion of the Affair of Cape-Breton. And 'tis worthy to be noted and remembred, that God sent that great Storm on the Fleet of our Enemies the last Year, that finally dispersed, and utterly confounded them, and caused them wholly to give over their Designs against us, the very Night after our Day of publick Fasting and Prayer, for our Protection and their Confusion.
Thus, although' it be a Day of great Apostasy and Provocation, yet it is apparently a Day of the wonderful Works of God; Wonders of Power and Mercy; which may well lead us to think on those two Places of Scripture, Psal. cxix.126. It is Time for thee, Lord, to work, for they have made void thy Law. And