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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.
and then, after they had run a thousand Cubits, being up to the Ankles; and at the End of another thousand Cubits, up to the Knees; and at the End of another thousand, up to the Loins; and afterwards a great River, that could not be passed over; and being finally brought into the Sea, and healing the Waters even of the vast Ocean. If the Spirit of God should be immediately poured out, and that great Work of God's Power and Grace should now begin, which in it's Progress and Issue should complete this glorious Effect; there must be an amazing and unparalleled Progress of the Work and Manifestation of divine Power to bring so much to pass, by the Year 2000. Would it not be a great Thing, to be accomplished in one half Century, that Religion, in the Power and Purity of it, should so prevail, as to gain the Conquest over all those many Things that stand in Opposition to it among Protestants, and gain the upper Hand through the Protestant World? And if in another, it should go on so to prevail, as to get the Victory over all the Opposition and Strength of the Kingdom of Antichrist, ⟨p. 152⟩so as to gain the Ascendent in that which is now the Popish World? And if in a third Half-Century, it should prevail and subdue the greater Part of the Mahometan World, and bring in the Jewish Nation, in all their Dispersions? And then in the next whole Century, the whole Heathen World should be enlightened and converted to the christian Faith, throughout all Parts of Africa, Asia, America and Terra Australis, and be thoroughly settled in Christian Faith and Order, without any Remainders of their old Delusions and Superstitions, and this attended with an utter Extirpation of the Remnant of the Church of Rome, and all the Relics of Mahometism, Heresy, Schism and Enthusiasm, and a Suppression of all Remains of open Vice and Immorality, and every Sort of visible Enemy to true Religion, through the whole Earth, and bring to an End all the unhappy Commotions, Tumults, and Calamities occasioned by such great Changes, and all Things so adjusted and settled through the World, that the World thenceforward should enjoy an holy Rest or Sabbatism?
and then, after they had run a thousand Cubits, being up to the Ankles; and at the End of another thousand Cubits, up to the Knees; and at the End of another thousand, up to the Loyns; and afterwards a great River, that could not be pass'd over; and being finally brought into the Sea, and healing the Waters even of the vast Ocean. If the Spirit of God should be immediately poured out, and that great Work of God's Power and Grace should now begin, which in it's Progress and Issue should compleat this glorious Effect; there must be an amazing and unparallel'd Progress of the Work and Manifestation of divine Power to bring so much to pass, by the Year 2000. Would it not be a great Thing, to be accomplished in one half Century, that Religion, in the Power and Purity of it, should so prevail, as to gain the Conquest over all those many Things that stand in Opposition to it among Protestants, and gain the upper Hand through the Protestant World? And if in another, it should go on so to prevail, as to get the Victory over all the Opposition and Strength of the Kingdom of Antichrist,