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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 Beast that had ten Horns, is not the City of Rome and the neighbouring Region, but the Roman Empire; they are the Horns or the Kings, not of the City, but of the Empire. If we consider what ⟨p. 142⟩is expressed in the Passages themselves, which speak of the three Years and half of Antichrist, they will lead us to understand something very diverse from the Duration of his temporal Dominion over St. Peter's Patrimony. In Dan. vii.25. the Time, Times and an half, of the little Horn, is expressly the Continuance of Time wherein it shall be given to him to change Times and Laws, and wear out the Saints of the most High: And in Chap. xii.7. 'tis spoken of as the Time of his Scattering the Power of the holy People: In Rev. xi.2. the forty and two Months is spoken of as the Time of Antichrist's treading under Foot the Court of the Temple and the holy City; i. e. the external or visible christian Church abroad in the World, or the Nations of Christendom. In Ver. 3. the 1260 Days of Antichrist are spoken of as the Time of the Witnesses prophesying in Sackcloth; and in Chap. xii.6, and 14. the Time of the Woman's being in the Wilderness, which was through' the great Power that Antichrist had over the christian World, and not his small temporal Dominion in Italy.
The Beast that had ten Horns, is not the City of Rome and the neighbouring Region, but the Roman Empire; they are the Horns or the Kings, not of the City, but of the Empire. If we consider what ⟨p. 142⟩is expressed in the Passages themselves, which speak of the three Years and half of Antichrist, they will lead us to understand something very diverse from the Duration of his temporal Dominion over St. Peter's Patrimony. In Dan. vii.25. the Time, Times and an half, of the little Horn, is expresly the Continuance of Time wherein it shall be given to him to change Times and Laws, and wear out the Saints of the most High: And in Chap. xii.7. 'tis spoken of as the Time of his Scattering the Power of the holy People: In