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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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It was not thought best, to propose at first a longer Time for the Continuance of this precise Method, than two Years: It being considered, that it is not possible, before any Trial, so well to judge of the Expedience of a particular Method and certain Circumstances of the managing and ordering such an Affair, as after some Time of Experience. And it was not known, but that after longer Consideration, and some Trial, it might be thought best to alter some Circumstances; or whether others, that had not yet been consulted, might not propose a better Method. The Time first agreed on, tho' but short, was thought sufficient to give Opportunity for Judgment and Experience, and for such as were disposed to Union in an Affair of such a Nature, in distant Places, mutually to communicate their Sentiments on the Subject.
It was not thought best, to propose at first a longer Time for the Continuance of this precise Method, than two Years: It being considered, that it is not possible, before any Trial, so well to judge of the Expedience of a particular Method and certain Cir•umstances of the managing and ordering such an Affair, as after some Time of Experience. And it was not known, but that after longer Consideration, and some Trial, it might be thought best to alter some Circumstances; or whether others, that had not yet been consulted, might not propose a better Method. The Time first agreed on, tho' but short, was thought sufficient to give Opportunity for Judgment and Experience, and for such as were disposed to Union in an Affair of such a Nature, in distant Places, mutually to communicate their Sentiments on the Subject.
The Way, in which those that first projected and came into this Agreement, thought best for the giving Notice of it and proposing it to others, was not by any Thing published from the Press; but by personal Conversation with such as they could conveniently have immediate Access to, and by private Correspondence with others at a Distance. At first it was intended, that some formal Paper, proposing the Matter, should be sent about for ⟨p. 19⟩