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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.
This new Jerusalem is called in this Book the Paradise of God; and therefore is represented as having the Tree of Life growing in it, Chap. ii.7. and xxii.2. And it being described, as tho' a River ran through the Midst of it, there seems to be some Allusion to the ancient Paradise in Eden, of which we are told that there ran a River through the Midst of it to water it; (Gen. ii.10.) i. e. to supply the Plants of it with Nourishment. And this River was this very same River Euphrates, that afterwards ran through Babylon. And in one and the other, it represented the divers Supplies of two opposite Cities: In Eden, it represented the spiritual Supplies and Wealth of the true Christian Church, in her spiritual Advancement and Glory; and seems to be so made use of Rev. xxii.1, 2. In the other it represented the outward carnal Supplies of the false antichristian Church, in her worldly Pomp and vain Glory, Chap. xvi.12.
This new Ierusalem is called in this Book the Paradise of God; and therefore is represented as having the Tree of Life growing in it, Chap. ii.7. and xxii.2. And it being described, as tho' a River ran through the Midst of it, there seems to be some Allusion to the ancient Paradise in Eden, of which we are told that there ran a River through the Midst of it to water it; (Gen. ii.10.) i. e. to supply the Plants of it with Nourishment. And this River was this very same River Euphrates, that afterwards ran through Babylon. And in one and the other, it represented the divers Supplies of two opposite Cities: In Eden, it represented the spiritual Supplies and Wealth of the true Christian Church, in her spiritual Advancement and Glory; and seems to be so made use of Rev. xxii.1, 2. In the other it represented the outward carnal Supplies of the false antichristian Church, in her worldly Pomp and vain Glory, Chap. xvi.12.