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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.
even the prevailing of God's Enemies, and the almost total Extinguishing the true Religion in the World. And on this Hypothesis, these Discouragements are like to attend the Prayers of God's People, 'till that dismal Time be actually come: And when that is come, those that had been prophesying and praying in Sackcloth, shall generally be slain: And after that Time is over, then the glorious Day shall immediately commence. So that this Notion tends to discourage and hinder all earnest Prayer in the Church of God for that glorious ⟨p. 103⟩Coming of Christ's Kingdom, 'till it be actually come; and that is to hinder it's ever being at all.
It being so, this Opinion being of such hurtful Tendency, certainly it is a thousand Pities it should prevail and be retained, if truly there be no good Ground fo• it.
It being so, this Opinion being of such hurtful Tendency, certainly it is a thousand Pities it should prevail and be retained, if truely there be no good Ground fo• it.
Therefore in Answer to this Objection, I would with all Humility and Modesty, examine the Foundation of that Opinion, of such a dreadful Time of Victory of Antichrist over the Church, yet to be expected: And particularly shall endeavour to show that the slaying of the Witnesses, foretold Rev. xi.7,—10. is not an Event that remains yet to be fulfilled.—To this End, I would propose the following Things to Consideration.
Therefore in Answer to this Objection, I would with all Humility and Modesty, examine the Foundation of that Opinion, of such a dreadful Time of Victory of Antichrist over the Church, yet to be expected: And particularly shall endeavour to shew that the slaying of the Witnesses, foretold