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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.
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⟩extirpated them, and being completely delivered from them, and all that might give 'em any Fear of being ever troubled with them any more. This Time, wherever it be fixed, doubtless is the Time, not only, wherein fewest Professors of the true Religion are left in the World; but a Time wherein the Truth shall be farthest out of Sight, and out of Reach, and most forgotten; wherein there are left fewest Beams of Light or Traces of Truth, fewest Means of Information, and Opportunities of coming to the Knowledge of the Truth; and so a Time of the most barbarous Ignorance, most destitute of all History, Relics, Monuments and Memory of Things appertaining to true Religion, or Things, the Knowledge of which hath any Tendency to bring Truth again to Light; and most destitute of Learning, Study and Enquiry.
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 publick Triumph, as having obtained a full Victory over them, and having entirely