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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.
One would think that every one that favours the Dust of Zion, when he hears that God is stirring up a considerable Number of his Ministers and People, to unite in extraordinary Prayer, for the Revival of Religion and Advancement of his Kingdom, should greatly rejoice on this Occasion. If we lay to Heart the present Calamities of the Church of Christ, and long for that blessed Alteration that God has promised, one would think it should be natural to rejoice at the Appearance of something in so dark a Day, that is so promising a Token. Would not our Friends that were lately in Captivity at Canada, that earnestly longed for Deliverance, have rejoiced to have heard of any Thing that seemed to forebode the Approach of their Redemption? ⟨p. 185⟩And particularly may we not suppose that such of 'em as were religious Persons, would greatly have rejoiced to have understood that there was stirred up in God's People an extraordinary Spirit of Prayer for their Redemption? And I don't know why it would not be as natural for us to rejoice at the like hopeful Token of the Redemption of Zion, if we made her Interest our own, and preferred Jerusalem above our chief Joy.
One would think that every one that favours the Dust of Zion, when he hears that God is stirring up a considerable Number of his Ministers and People, to unite in extraordinary Prayer, for the Revival of Religion and Advancement of his Kingdom, should greatly rejoice on this Occasion. If we lay to Heart the present Calamities of the Church of Christ, and long for that blessed Alteration that God has promised, one would think it should be natural to rejoice at the Appearance of something in so dark a Day, that is so promising a Token. Would not our Friends that were lately in Captivity at Canada, that earnestly longed for Deliverance, have rejoiced to have heard of any Thing that seemed to forebode the Approach of their Redemption? ⟨p. 185⟩And particularly may we not suppose that such of 'em as were religious Persons, would greatly have rejoiced to have understood that there was stirred up in God's People an extraordinary Spirit of Prayer for their Redemption? And I don't know why it would not be as natural for us to rejoice at the like hopeful Token of the Redemption of Zion, if we made her Interest our own, and prefer'd Ierusalem above our chief Joy.