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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE PREFACE.
THE Ruin of Satan's miserable Kingdom, and the Advancement of the universal and happy Reign of CHRIST on the Earth, were included and hinted in the Sentence denounced on the Serpent, that the Seed of the Woman should bruise his Head. What was a terrible Threatening to Satan, in the surprised Ears of our first guilty Parents, implied a joyful Prophecy, to keep them from Despair, and enliven their Hopes for themselves and their Descendants, of obtaining by this Seed of her's an eternal Triumph over him who had so sadly foiled them. And 'tis likely, their Hope and Faith immediately arose, laid hold on the reviving Prophecy, earnestly desired it's happy Accomplishment, and transmitted it to their Posterity.
THE Ruin of Satan's miserable Kingdom, and the Advancement of the universal and happy Reign of CHRIST on the Earth, were included and hinted in the Sentence denounced on the Serpent, that the Seed of the Woman should bruise his Head. What was a terrible Threatning to Satan, in the surprized Ears of our first guilty Parents, implied a joyful Prophecy, to keep them from Despair, and enliven their Hopes for themselves and their Descendants, of obtaining by this Seed of her's an eternal Triumph over him who had so sadly foiled them. And 'tis likely, their Hope and Faith immediately arose, laid hold on the reviving Prophecy, earnestly desired it's happy Accomplishment, and transmitted it to their Posterity.