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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.
It is the revealed Will of God, that he should be enquired of by his People, by extraordinary Prayer, concerning this great Mercy, to do it for them, before it be fulfilled. And if any suppose, that 'tis now found out precisely when the Time is to be, and (the Time being at a considerable Distance) that now is not a proper Season to begin this extraordinary Prayer, I would, on this Supposition, ask, When we shall begin? •ow long before the fixed and known Time of the •••owment of this Mercy comes, shall we begin to […] earnestly to God that this Mercy may come, and •hat Christ would make haste and be like a Roe, &c? For us to delay, supposing that we know the Time to be far off, is not agreeable to the Language of God's People in my Text, Come, let us go SPEEDILY, and pray before the Lord, and seek the Lord of Hosts.
It is the revealed Will of God, that he should be enquired of by his People, by extraordinary Prayer, concerning this great Mercy, to do it for them, before it be fulfilled. And if any suppose, that 'tis now found out precisely when the Time is to be, and (the Time being at a considerable Distance) that now is not a proper Season to begin this extraordinary Prayer, I would, on this Supposition, ask, When we shall begin? •ow long before the fixed and known Time of the •••owment of this Mercy comes, shall we begin to 〈…〉 •arnestly to God that this Mercy may come, and •hat Christ would make haste and be like a Roe, &c? For us to delay, supposing that we know the Time to be far off, is not agreable to the Language of God's People in my Text, Come, let us go SPEEDILY, and pray before the Lord, and seek the Lord of Hosts.
Ans. 2. I acknowledge that Mr. Lowman's Exposition of the Revelation is, on many Accounts, excellently written, giving great Light into some Parts of that Prophecy, and an Instance of the Fulfilment of that Prediction,