N04757:53
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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The two Years, first agreed on, ended last November. A little before this Time expired, a Number of Ministers in Scotland agreed on a Memorial to be printed, ⟨p. 20⟩and sent abroad to their Brethren in various Parts, proposing to 'em and requesting of 'em to join with them in the Continuance of this Method of united Prayer, and in Endeavours to promote it. Copies of which Memorial have lately been sent over into New England, to the Number of near 500, directed to be distributed in almost every County in this Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, and also in several Parts of Connecticut, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia. The most (I suppose) of these were sent to one of the Congregational Ministers in Boston, with a Letter subscribed by twelve Ministers in Scotland, about the Affair:— Many of them to another of the said Ministers of Boston; and some to a Minister in Connecticut.—It being short, I shall here insert a Copy of it at Length. 'Tis as follows.—
The two Years, first agreed on, ended last November. A little before this Time expired, a Number of Ministers in Scotland agreed on a Memo•ial to be printed, ⟨p. 20⟩and sent abroad to their Brethren in various Parts, proposing to 'em and requesting of 'em to join with them in the Continuance of this Method of united Prayer, and in Endeavours to promote it. Copies of which Memorial have lately been sent over into New England, to the Number of near 500, directed to be distributed in almost every County in this Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, and also in several Parts of Connecticut, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, New-York, New-Iersey, Pensylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia. The most (I suppose) of these were sent to one of the Congregational Ministers in Boston, with a Letter subscribed by twelve Ministers in Scotland, about the Affair:— Many of them to another of the said Ministers of Boston; and some to a Minister in Connecticut.—It being short, I shall here insert a Copy of it at Length. 'Tis as follows.—