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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 there shall be an Highway for the Remnant of his People which shall be left, from Assyria, like as it was to Israel, in the Day that he come out of the Land of Egypt. Chap. lvii.14. Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the Way, take up the Stumbling-Block out of the Way of my People. And Chap. lxii.10. Go through, go through the Gates; prepare ye the Way of the People; cast up, cast up the Highway; gather out the Stones; lift up a Standard for the People. Zech. x.10, 11, 12. I will bring them again also out of the Land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; And I will bring them into the Land of Gilead and Lebanon; and Place shall not be found for them. And he shall pass through the Sea with Affliction, and shall smite the Waves ⟨p. 164⟩of the Sea; and all the Deeps of the River shall dry up: And the Pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the Sceptre of Egypt shall depart away: And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down in his Name, saith the Lord. And 'tis worthy to be remarked that as Cyrus's destroying Babylon, and letting go God's Captives from thence, and restoring Jerusalem, is certainly typical of Christ's destroying mystical Babylon, and delivering his People from her Tyranny, and gloriously building up the spiritual Jerusalem in the latter Days; so God's preparing Cyrus's Way, by drying up the River Euphrates, is spoken of in Terms like those that are used in those Prophecies that have been mentioned, to signify the preparing Christ's Way, when he shall come to accomplish the latter Event. Thus God says concerning Cyrus, Isai. xlv.2. I will go before thee, and MAKE CROOKED PLACES STRAIGHT. And Ver. 13 I will direct, or make straight (as it is in the Margin) all his Ways. This is like Chap. xl.2, 4. Prepare ye the Way of the Lord; make straight in the Desert an Highway for our God.—The crooked Things shall be made straight. Chap. xlii.16. I will make Darkness Light before them, and crooked Things straight.
And there shall be an Highway for the Remnant of his People which shall be left, from Assyria, like as it was to Israel, in the Day that he come out of the Land of Egypt. Chap. lvii.14. Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the Way, take up the Stumbling-Block out of the Way of my People. And Chap. lxii.10. Go through, go through the Gates; prepare ye the Way of the People; cast up, cast up the Highway; gather out the Stones; lift up a Standard for the People.