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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 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, ⟨p. 175⟩which is now probably begun, is at an End, the Spirit of God will so influence the Hearts of Protestants, that they will be disposed to devote to the Service of God the Silver and Gold they take from their popish Enemies, and the Gains of their Trade and Navigation, both to the East and West Indies, so that their Merchandise and Hire shall be Holiness to the Lord.
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 T••shish FIRST, to bring thy Sons from far, their •ilver 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, ⟨p. 175⟩which is now probably begun, is at an End, the Spirit of God will so influence the Hearts of Protestants, that they will be disposed to devote to the Service of God the Silver and Gold they take from their popish Enemies, and the Gains of their Trade and Navigation, both to the East and West Indies, so that their Merchandize and Hire shall be Holiness to the Lord.