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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.
The three Woes are the Woes of God on Antichrist and his Subjects; and the third and last of them evidently signifies the terrible Judgments of God on Antichrist, ⟨p. 119⟩by which God's Wrath upon him shall be fulfilled in his utter Destruction: But the Calamities on Antichrist, spoken of as attending the rising and ascending of the Witnesses, such as the falling of the tenth Part of the City, and slaying seven thousand Men, do not belong to this last Woe, and therefore don't signify the final Destruction of Antichrist: For the Words of Ver. 14. will by no Means allow of such a Supposition; for there, immediately after giving an Account of these Calamities, it is added, The second Woe is past; and behold the third Woe cometh quickly: Making a most plain and express Distinction between these Calamities that had already been mentioned, and especially these that were just then mentioned in the very last Words, and the Calamities that belong to the third Woe, that yet remain to be mentioned: For by being passed, the Prophet is to be understood no otherwise than passed in the Declaration and Representation; it was not past in any other Respect: 'Tis as much as to say, Thus an Account has been given of the Calamities upon Antichrist that belong to the second Woe; now I proceed to give an Account of those Dispensations of Providence that belong to the third and last Woe, which shall prove Antichrist's final Destruction, and end in the Kingdoms of this World becoming the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.
The three Woes are the Woes of God on Antichrist and his Subjects; and the third and last of them evidently signifies the terrible Judgments of God on Antichrist, ⟨p. 119⟩by which God's Wrath upon him shall be fulfill'd in his utter Destruction: But the Calamities on Antichrist, spoken of as attending the rising and ascending of the Witnesses, such as the falling of the tenth Part of the City, and slaying seven thousand Men, do not belong to this last Woe, and therefore don't signify the final Destruction of Antichrist: For the Words of Ver. 14. will by no Means allow of such a Supposition; for there, immediately after giving an Account of these Calamities, it is added, The second Wo is past; and behold the third Wo cometh quickly: Making a most plain and express Distinction between these Calamities that had already been mention'd, and especially these that were just then mention'd in the very last Words, and the Calamities that belong to the third Wo, that yet remain to be mention'd: For by being pass'd, the Prophet is to be understood no otherwise than pass'd in the Declaration and Representation; it was not past in any other Respect: 'Tis as much as to say, Thus an Account has been given of the Calamities upon Antichrist that belong to the second Woe; now I proceed to give an Account of those Dispensations of Providence that belong to the third and last Wo, which shall prove Antichrist's final Destruction, and end in the Kingdoms of this World becoming the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.