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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.
God never forsook the Work of his own Hand; when he had begun to deliver his People, he also made an End. ⟨p. 108⟩And so Haman, that proud and inveterate Enemy of the Jews, that thought to extirpate the whole Nation, who also was probably another Type of Antichrist, when he began to fall before Esther and Mordecai, never stayed, 'till his Ruin, and the Church's Deliverance was complete. Haman's Wife speaks of it, as an Argument of his approaching inevitable full Destruction, that he had begun to fall, Esth. vi.15.
God never forsook the Work of his own Hand; when he had begun to deliver his People, he also made an End. ⟨p. 108⟩And so Haman, that proud and inveterate Enemy of the Iews, that thought to extirpate the whole Nation, who also was probably another Type of Antichrist, when he began to fall before Esther and Mordecai, never stay'd, 'till his Ruin, and the Church's Deliverance was compleat. Haman's Wife speaks of it, as an Argument of his approaching inevitable full Destruction, that he had begun to fall, Esth. vi.15.
3. If it should be so, that Antichristian Tyranny and Darkness should hereafter so prevail against the Protestant-Church, and the true Religion, and every Thing appertaining to it, as to bring Things to the Pass forementioned, this would hardly so properly answer the Prophecy of slaying the two Witnesses; for doubtless, one Reason why they are called two Witnesses, is that the Number of the remaining Witnesses for the Truth, was, tho' sufficient, yet very small. Which was remarkably the Case, in the dark Times of Popery: but since the Reformation, the Number of those appearing on the Side of true Religion, has been far from being so small. The visible Church of Christ has been vastly large, in comparison of what it was before: The Number of Protestants has sometimes been thought near equal to that of the Papists; and doubtless the Number of true Saints has been far greater than before.