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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
Part 1: PART, I. The Text open'd, and an Account given of the Affair proposed in the MEMORIAL f…
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So that however the Prophet, in some Things that are said in this Chapter, may have Respect to future Smiles of Heaven on the Nation of the Jews, lately returned from the Babylonish Captivity, and resettled in ⟨p. 4⟩the Land of Canaan, in a great Increase of their Numbers and Wealth, and the Return of more Captives from Chaldea and other Countries, &c. yet the Spirit of God has doubtless Respect to Things far greater than these, and of which these were but faint Resemblances. We find it common in the Prophecies of the old Testament, that when the Prophets are speaking of the Favours and Blessings of God on the Jews, attending or following their Return from the Babylonish Captivity, the Spirit of God takes Occasion from thence to speak of the incomparably greater Blessings on the Church, that shall attend and follow her Deliverance from the spiritual or mystical Babylon, of which those were a Type; and is, as it were, led away to speak almost wholly of these latter, and vastly greater Things, so as to seem to forget the Former.
So that however the Prophet, in some Things that are said in this Chapter, may have Respect to future Smiles of Heaven on the Nation of the Iews, lately returned from the Babylonish Captivity, and resettled in ⟨p. 4⟩the Land of Canaan, in a great Increase of their Numbers and Wealth, and the Return of more Captives from Chaldea and other Countries, &c. yet the Spirit of God has doubtless Respect to Things far greater than these, and of which these were but faint Resemblances. We find it common in the Prophecies of the old Testament, that when the Prophets are speaking of the Favours and Blessings of God on the Iews, attending or following their Return from the Babylonish Captivity, the Spirit of God takes Occasion from thence to speak of the incomparably greater Blessings on the Church, that shall attend and follow her Deliverance from the spiritual or mystical Babylon, of which those were a Type; and is, as it were, led away to speak almost wholly of these latter, and vastly greater Things, so as to seem to forget the Former.