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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.
Upon the Account of such Defence of God's Protestant Church, and Disappointment and Confusion of all the subtle Devices, deep-laid Schemes, and furious Attempts of their antichristian Enemies, to bring them under, and root them out, and their seeing them still maintaining their Ground, and subsisting in an Independency on them, in Spite of all that they do, makes them as it were gnash their Teeth, and bite their Tongues for mere Rage and Vexation; agreeable to Psal. cxii.9, 10. His Righteousness endureth for ever, his Horn shall be exalted with Honour: The Wicked shall-see it and be grieved, and gnash with his Teeth and melt away: The Desire of the Wicked shall perish.
Upon the Account of such Defence of God's Protestant Church, and Disappointment and Confusion of all the subtil Devices, deep-laid Schemes, and furious Attempts of their antichristian Enemies, to bring them under, and root them out, and their seeing them still maintaining their Ground, and subsisting in an Independency on them, in Spite of all that they do, makes them as it were gnash their Teeth, and bite their Tongues for meer Rage and Vexation; agreable to Psal. cxii.9, 10. His Righteousness endureth for ever, his Horn shall be exalted with Honour: The Wicked shall-see it and be grieved, and gnash with his Teeth and melt away: The Desire of the Wicked shall perish.
Hitherto this Prophecy has been very signally fulfilled; since the Reformation, the Kingdom of Antichrist has been remarkably filled with Darkness in this Respect. Innumerable have been the crafty Devices, and great Attempts of the Church of Rome, wherein they have exerted their utmost Policy and Power, to recover their lost Dominions, and again to subjugate the Protestant Nations, and subdue the northern Heresy, as they call it. They have wearied themselves in these Endeavours for more than two hundred Years past. But have hitherto been disappointed; and have often been strangely confounded. When their Matters seemed to be brought to a Ripeness, and they triumphed as tho' their Point was gained, their Joy and Triumph has suddenly turned into Vexation and Torment. How many have been their politic and powerful Attempts against the Protestant Interest in our Nation, in particular? And how wonderfully had God disappointed them from Time to Time! And as God has hitherto so remarkably