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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.
Mr. Lowman, in Pursuance of his Scheme, also supposes, (which is yet more incredible) this Period of the Trumpets ends in a State of Safety, Peace and Happiness to the Church of God; so that, on that Occasion, there are great Voices in Heaven, saying, The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, Chap. xi.15. ‡And yet he supposes, that it issues in setting up the Kingdom of Antichrist; and that about that very Time, when these heavenly Voices so joyfully proclaimed this, the Beast was enthroned, and the Time, Times, and Half, or 1260 Days of his Reign began, which is spoken of every where, as the Time of the Church's greatest Darkness and Trouble, ⟨p. 146⟩the Time wherein the little Horn should wear out the Saints of the most High, Dan. vii.25. The Time appointed for his scattering the Power of the holy People, Dan. xii.7. The Time of the Woman's being in the Wilderness, Rev. xii.6, 14. The Time of tr•ading under Foot the Court of the Temple, Chap. xi.2. And the Time of the Witnesses prophesying in Sackcloth, Chap. xi.3.
- ‡Preface of his Paraphrase, &c. P. 13, 14, and 16.
However, I do not deny that the Time when Mr. Lowman supposes the Reign of the Beast began, even the Time when P•pin confirmed to the Pope his temporal Dominions in Italy, was a Time of the great Increase and Advancement of the Power of Antichrist in the World, and a notable Epoch. And i• […] may be allowed humbly to offer what appears to me to be the Tru with Relation to the Rise and Fall of Antichrist; it is this. As the Power of Antichrist, and the Corruption of the apostate Church, rose not at once, but by several notable Steps and Degrees; so i will in the like Manner fall: And that divers Steps and Seasons of Destruction to the spiritual Babylon, and Revival and Advancement of the true Church, are prophesied of under one. Tho' it be true, that there is some particular Event, that prevails above all others in the Intention of the Prophecy, some one remarkable Season of the Destruction of the Church of Rome and papal Power and Corruption, and Advancement of true Religion, that the Prophecies have a principal Respect to.