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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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III. It is also humbly offered to the Consideration of Ministers, and others furnished with Gifts for the most public Instructions,3 Whether it might not be of great Use, by the Blessing of God, if short and nervous scriptural Persuasives and Directions to the Duty in View, were composed and published (either by particular Authors, or several joining together; which last Way might some Times have peculiar Advantages) and that from Time to Time, without too great Intervals; the better to keep alive on Men's Minds a just Sense of the Obligations to a Duty so imp•••ant in itself, and in which many may be in Danger to faint and turn remiss, without such repeated Incitements: And whether it would not also be of great Use, if Ministers would be pleased to preach frequently on the Importance and Necessity of Prayer for the Coming of our Lord's Kingdom; particularly near the quarterly Days, or on these Days themselves, where there is public Worship at that Time.
III. It is also humbly offered to the Consideration of Ministers, and others furnished with Gifts for the most publick Instructions,3 Whether it might not be of great Use, by the Blessing of God, if short and nervous scriptural Persuasives and Directions to the Duty in View, were compos'd and published (either by particular Authors, or several joining together; which last Way might some Times have peculiar Advantages) and that from Time to Time, without too great Intervals; the better to keep alive on Men's Minds a just Sense of the Obligations to a Duty so imp•••ant in itself, and in which many may be in Danger to faint and turn remiss, without such repeated Incitements: And whether it would not also be of great Use, if Ministers would be pleas'd to preach frequently on the Importance and Necessity of Prayer for the Coming of our Lord's Kingdom; particularly near the quarterly Days, or on these Days themselves, where there is publick Worship at that Time.
- 3The use of printed Persuasives, &c. repeated from Time to Time.