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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.
But these Things can't be. The Battle Chap. xi.7. can't be the same with that last and great Battle between the Church and Antichrist, described Chap. xvi, and xix. For the Things that are said of one and the other, and their Issue, are in no wise consistent. In that Battle, Chap. xi. the Church of God conflicts with her Enemies in Sorrow, Sackcloth, and Blood: but in the other the Matter is represented exceedingly otherwise; the Church goes forth to fight with Antichrist, not in Sackcloth and Blood, but clothed in white Raiment, Christ himself before them, as their Captain, going forth in great Pomp and Magnificence, upon a white Horse, and on his Head many Crowns, and on his Vesture and on his Thigh a Name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS; and the Saints that follow so glorious a Leader to this great Battle, follow him on white Horses, clothed in fine Linen, white and clean, in Garments of Strength, Joy, Glory and Triumph; in the same Kind of Raiment, that the Saints appear in, when they are represented as triumphing with Christ, with Palms in their Hands, Chap. vii.• ▪ And the Issue of the latter of these Conflicts, is quite the Reverse of the former. In that Battle, Chap. xi.7. The Beast makes War with the Witnesses, and OVERCOMES THEM, AND KILLS THEM: The same is foretold Dan. vii.21. I beheld, and the same Horn made War with the Saints, and prevailed against them. And Rev. xii.7. And it was given unto him to make War with the Saints, and to overcome them. But in the Issue of that l•st and great Battle, which the Church shall have with her antichristian Enemies, the Church shall OVERCOME THEM, AND KILL THEM; Rev. xvii.14. These shall make War with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of Lords, and King of ⟨p. 114⟩Kings; and they that are with him, are called and chosen and faithful. compared with Chap. xix.16, and following Verses, and Chap. xvi.16, 17. In the Conflict that the Beast shall have with the Witnesses, the Beast kills them, and their dead Bodies lie unburied; as tho' they were to be Meat for the Beasts of the Earth & Fowls of Heaven: But in that last great Battle, 'tis represented that Christ and his Church shall slay their Enemies, and give their dead Bodies to be Meat for the Fowls of Heaven, Chap. xix.17, to the End.