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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
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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 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.
1. The Time wherein the Witnesses lie dead in the Streets of the great City, doubtless signifies the Time wherein the true Church of Christ is lowest of all, most of all prevailed against by Antichrist, and nearest to […] utter Extinction; the Time wherein there is left the least Visibility of the Church of Christ yet subsisting in the World, least remains of any Thing appertaining to true Religion, whence a Revival of it can be expected, and wherein all Means of it are most abolished, and the State of the Church is in all Respects furthest from any Thing whence any Hopes of it's ever flourishing again might arise.—For before this, the Witnesses prophesy in Sackcloth; but now they are dead: Before this, they were kept low indeed, yet there was Life, and Power to bring Plagues on their Enemies, and so much of true Religion left, as to be a continual Eye-sore and Torment to them; but now their Enemies rejoice and ••aft, and have a general public Triumph, as having obtained a full Victory over them, and having entirely ⟨p. 104⟩