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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.
There is no Manner of Appearance, in the Descriptions that are given of that last great Battle, of any Advantages gained in it, by the Enemies of the Church, before they themselves are overcome; but all Appearance of the contrary. Be sure the Descriptions in the xvi and xix Chapters of the Revelation will by no means allow of such an Advantage, as the overcoming God's People, and slaying them, and their lying dead for some Time, and unburied, that their dead Bodies may be for their Enemies to abuse, and trample on, and make Sport with. In Chap. xvi we read of their being gathered together against the Church, a mighty Host, into the Place called Armageddon; and then the first Thing we hear of, is the pouring out the seventh Vial of God's Wrath, and a Voice saying, It is done. And so in the xix Chap. we have an Account of the Beast, and the Kings of the Earth, and their Armies, being gathered together to make War against him that sat on the Horse, and against his Army. And then the next Thing we hear of, is, that the Beast is taken, and with him the false Prophet; and that these are both cast alive into the Lake of Fire; and that the Remnant of their vast Army are slain, and all the Fowls filled with their Flesh. The Issue of the Conflict of the ⟨p. 115⟩Beast with the Witnesses, is the Triumph of the Church's Enemies over God's People, looking on them as entirely vanquished, and their Interest utterly ruined, past all Possibility of Recovery; They that dwell on the Earth shall see the dead Bodies of the Saints lying in the Streets of the great City, and shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and send Gifts one to another. But the Issue of that great and last Battle is quite the Reverse; it is the Church's Triumph over her Enemies, as being utterly and forever destroyed.
There is no Manner of Apearance, in the Descriptions that are given of that last great Battle, of any Advantages gained in it, by the Enemies of the Church, before they themselves are overcome; but all Appearance of the contrary. Be sure the Descriptions in the xvi and xix Chapters of the Revelation will by no means allow of such an Advantage, as the overcoming God's People, and slaying them, and their lying dead for some Time, and unburied, that their dead Bodies may be for their Enemies to abuse, and trample on, and make Sport with. In Chap. xvi we read of their being gathered together against the Church, a mighty Host, into the Place called Armageddon; and then the first Thing we hear of, is the pouring out the seventh Vial of God's Wrath, and a Voice saying, It is done. And so in the xix Chap. we have an Account of the Beast, and the Kings of the Earth, and their Armies, being gathered together to make War against him that sat on the Horse, and against his Army. And then the next Thing we hear of, is, that the Beast is taken, and with him the false Prophet; and that these are both cast alive into the Lake of Fire; and that the Remnant of their vast Army are slain, and all the Fowls filled with their Flesh. The Issue of the Conflict of the