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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.
When Joab had taken that Part of the City of Rabbah, that was called the City of Waters, whence the City had it's Supply of Water, the Fountains of the Brook Jabbok being probably there▪ and which was also called the Royal City, probably because there the King had his Palace and Gardens, on the Account of it's peculiar Pleasantness; I say, when he had taken this, the Conquest of the rest of the City was easy; his Message to David implies that the City now might be taken at Pleasure, 2 Sam. xii.27, 28. 'Tis possible that by the pouring out of the sixth Vial to dry up the River of the mystical Babylon, there may be something like the taking the City of Waters in Rabbah: some one of the chief of the popish Powers, that has been the main Strength and Support of the popish Cause, or from whence that Church has it's chief Supplies, may be destroyed, or converted, or greatly reduced. But this Events must determine.
When Ioab had taken that Part of the City of Rabbah, that was called the City of Waters, whence the City had it's Supply of Water, the Fountains of the Brook Iabbok being probably there▪ and which was also called the Royal City, probably because there the King had his Palace and Gardens, on the Account of it's peculiar Pleasantness; I say, when he had taken this, the Conquest of the rest of the City was easy; his Message to David implies that the City now might be taken at Pleasure, 2 Sam. xii.27, 28. 'Tis possible that by the pouring out of the sixth Vial to dry up the River of the mystical Babylon, there may be something like the taking the City of Waters in Rabbah: some one of the chief of the popish Powers, that has been the main Strength and Support of the popish Cause, or from whence that Church has it's chief Supplies, may be destroyed, or converted, or greatly reduced. But this Events must determine.
In the Prophecies of Egypt's Destruction, it is signified, that when their Rivers and Waters should be dried up, in that Sense, that the Streams of their temporal Supplies should be averted from them, their Defence would be gone;