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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.
5. The Hypothesis of those that suppose the slaying of the Witnesses is a Thing that yet remains to be fulfilled, makes the Prophecies of the Revelation to be inconsistent one with another. According to their Hypothesis, that Battle Rev. xi.7. wherein the Beast makes War with the Witnesses, and overcomes them, and kills them, is the last and greatest Conflict between Antichrist and the Church of Christ, that is to proceed the utter Overthrow of the antichristian Kingdom. And they must suppose so; for they suppose, that immediately after the Sufferings the Church shall endure in that War, she shall arise, and as it were ascend into Heaven; i. e. as they interpret it, the Church shall be directly advanced to her latter-day Rest, Prosperity and Glory. And consequently, this Conflict must be the same with that great Battle between Antichrist and the Church, that is described Chap. xvi.13, to the End, and more largely Chap. xix.11, to the End. For that which is described in these Places, is most evidently and indisputably the greatest and last Battle or Conflict that shall be between the Church and her antichristian Enemies; on which the utter Downfall of Antichrist, and the Church's Advancement to her latter-day Glory, shall be immediately consequent. And so the Earthquake that attends the Resurrection of the Witnesses Chap. xi.13, must be the same with that great Earthquake that is described, Chap. xvi.18. And the falling of the tenth Part of the City must be the same with that terrible and utter Destruction of Antichrist's Kingdom, Chap. xvi.17, to the End.
5. The Hypothesis of those that suppose the slaying of the Witnesses is a Thing that yet remains to be fulfilled, makes the Prophecies of the Revelation to be inconsistent one with another. According to their Hypothesis, that Battle Rev. xi.7. wherein the Beast makes War with the Witnesses, and overcomes them, and kills them, is the last and greatest Conflict between Antichrist and the Church of Christ, that is to preceed the utter Overthrow of the antichristian Kingdom. And they must suppose so; for they suppose, that immediately after the Sufferings the Church shall endure in that War, she shall arise, and as it were ascend into Heaven; i. e. as they interpret it, the Church shall be directly advanced to her latter-day Rest, Prosperity and Glory. And consequently, this Conflict must be the same with that great Battle between Antichrist and the Church, that is described Chap. xvi.13, to the End, and more largely Chap. xix.11, to the End. For that which is described in these Places, is most evidently and indisputably the greatest and last Battle or Conflict that shall be between the Church and her antichristian Enemies; on which the utter Downfall of Antichrist, and the Church's Advancement to her latter-day Glory, shall be immediately consequent. And so the Earthquake that attends the Resurrection of the Witnesses Chap. xi.13, must be the same with that great Earthquake that is described, Chap. xvi.18. And the falling of the tenth Part of the City must be the same with that terrible and utter Destruction of Antichrist's Kingdom, Chap. xvi.17, to the End.