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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.
The Scene of the Vision, in the former Part of the Prophecy, had been more especially the Land of Israel; and the Vision is concerning two Sorts of Persons there, viz. Those of the Tribes of Israel that had the Seal of God in their Foreheads, and those wicked apostate Israelites that had not this Mark. Compare Chap. vii.3,—8. and Chap. ix.4. The Vision in this ixth Chap. is of God's Judgments on those of the Tribes of Israel, or in the Land of Israel, which had not the Seal of God in their Foreheads. And therefore when Mention is made, Ver. 14. of a Judgment coming on them from the River Euphrates, this River is here spoken of in the former Respect, viz. with Regard to it's Relation to the Land of Israel, as it's Eastern Border; and thereby we must understand that God would bring some terrible Calamity on Christendom from it's Eastern Border, as he did when the Turks were let loose on Christendom.
If these Things that have been spoken of, are intended in the Prophecy of the sixth Vial, it affords, as I conceive, great Reason to hope that the Beginning of ⟨p. 167⟩that glorious Work of God's Spirit, which in the Progress and Issue of it, will overthrow Antichrist, and introduce the Glory of the latter Days, is not very far off.
Mr. Lowman has, I think, put it beyond all reasonable Doubt, that the 5th Vial was poured out in the Time of the Reformation. It also appears satisfyingly, by his late Exposition, that take one Vial with another, it has not been 200 Years from the Beginning of one Vial to the Beginning of another, but about 180 Years. But it is now about 220 Years since the 5th Vial began to be poured; and it is a long Time since the main Effects of it have been finished. And therefore if the 6th Vial hasn't already begun to be poured out, it may well be speedily expected.