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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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And it being the special Design of this Discourse, to persuade such as are Friends to the Interests of Christ's Kingdom, to a Compliance with the Proposal and Request made in that Memorial, I shall first give a short historical Account of the Affair it relates to, from Letters, Papers and Pamphlets, that have come over from Scotland; to which I shall annex the Memorial it self: And then I shall offer some Arguments and Motives, tending to induce the Friends of Religion to fall in with what is proposed: And lastly, make Answer to some Objections that may possibly be made against it.
And it being the special Design of this Discourse, to perswade such as are Friends to the Interests of Christ's Kingdom, to a Compliance with the Proposal and Request made in that Memorial, I shall first give a short historical Account of the Affair it relates to, from Letters, Papers and Pamphlets, that have come over from Scotland; to which I shall annex the Memorial it self: And then I shall offer some Arguments and Motives, tending to induce the Friends of Religion to fall in with what is proposed: And lastly, make Answer to some Objections that may possibly be made against it.
As to the First of these Things, viz. an historical Account of the Concert, which the Memorial relates to, the following Observations may give a sufficient View of that Affair.
In October, A. D. 1744, a Number of Ministers in Scotland, taking into Consideration the State of God's Church, and of the World of Mankind, judged that the Providence of God, at such a Day, did loudly call such as were concerned for the Welfare of Zion, to united extraordinary Applications to the God of all Grace, suitably acknowledging Him as the Fountain of all the spiritual Benefits and Blessings of his Church, and earnestly praying to Him, that he would appear in his Glory, and favour Zion, and manifest his Compassion to the World of Mankind, by an abundant Effusion of his Holy Spirit on all the Churches, and the whole habitable