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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
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.
PART III. OBJECTIONS answered.
I Come now, as was proposed, in the third Place, to answer and obviate some Objections, that some may be ready to make against the Thing that has been proposed to us.
OBJECT. I. Some may be ready to say, That for Christians, in such a Manner to set apart certain Seasons, every Week, and every Quarter, to be religiously observed and kept for the Purposes proposed, from Year to Year, would be in Effect to establish certain periodical Times of human Invention and Appointment, to be kept holy to God; and so to do the very Thing, that has ever been objected against, by a very great Part of the most eminent Christians and Divines among Protestants, as what Men have no Right to do; it being for them to add to God's Institutions, and introduce their own ⟨p. 86⟩Inventions and Establishments into the stated Worship of God, and lay unwarrantable Bonds on Men's Consciences, and do what naturally tends to Superstition.
OBJECT. I. Some may be ready to say, That for Christians, in such a Manner to set apart certain Seasons, every Week, and every Quarter, to be religiously observed and kept for the Purposes proposed, from Year to Year, would be in Effect to establish certain periodical Times of human Invention and Appointment, to be kept holy to God; and so to do the very Thing, that has ever been objected against, by a very great Part of the most eminent Christians and Divines among Protestants, as what Men have no Right to do; it being for them to add to God's Institutions, and introduce their own ⟨p. 86⟩Inventions and Establishments into the stated Worship of God, and lay unwarantable Bonds on Men's Consciences, and do what naturally tends to Superstition.