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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 besides those Things which belong to the Preparation of Christ's Way, which are so often represented by levelling Mountains, drying up Rivers, &c. viz. The unravelling Intricacies, and removing Difficulties attending christian Doctrines, the distinguishing between true Religion and it's false Appearances, the detecting and exploding Errors and corrupt Principles, and the reforming the wicked Lives of Professors, which have been the chief Stumbling-Blocks and Obstacles that have hitherto hindered the Progress of true Religion; I say, these Things, which seem to belong to this preparatory Vial, are the proper Work of the Spirit of God, promoting and advancing divine Light and true Piety, and can be the Effect of nothing else.
And besides those Things which belong to the Preparation of Christ's Way, which are so often represented by levelling Mountains, drying up Rivers, &c. viz. The unravelling Intricacies, and removing Difficulties attending christian Doctrines, the distinguishing between true Religion and it's false Appearances, the detecting and exploding Errors and corrupt Principles, and the reforming the wicked Lives of Professors, which have been the chief Stumbling-Blocks and Obstacles that have hitherto hindred the Progress of true Religion; I say, these Things, which seem to belong to this preparatory Vial, are the proper Work of the Spirit of God, promoting and advancing divine Light and true Piety, and can be the Effect of nothing else.
And that the Beginning of that glorious Work of God's Spirit, which shall finally bring on the Church's latter-day Glory, will accompany that other Effect of this Vial, viz. The turning the Streams of the Wealth of the World, the bringing it's Treasures, and the Gains of it's Trade and Navigation, into the true Protestant Church of Christ, seems very manifest, because this very Effect is spoken of as that which shall be at the Beginning of this glorious Work. Isai. lx.8, 9. Who are these that fly as a Cloud, and as Doves to their Windows? Surely the Isles shall wait for me, and the Ships of Tarshish FIRST, to bring thy Sons from far, their silver and Gold with them, unto the Name of the Lord thy God, and to the holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. So that 'tis to be hoped that before this Effect of this Vial,