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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 2: MOTIVES to a Compliance with what is proposed in the Memorial.
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.
And I desire that the following Things may be considered.
And I desire that the following Things may be consider'd.
1. It is evident from the Scripture, that there is yet remaining a great Advancement of the Interest of Religion and the Kingdom of Christ in this World, by an abundant outpouring of the Spirit of God, far greater and more extensive than ever yet has been. 'Tis certain, that many Things, which are spoken concerning a glorious Time of the Church's Enlargement and Prosperity in the latter Days, have never yet been fulfilled. There has never yet been any Propagation and Prevailing of Religion, in any wise, of that Extent and Universality, which the Prophecies represent. It is is often foretold ⟨p. 27⟩and signified, in a great Variety of strong Expressions, that there should a Time come, when all Nations, through' the whole habitable World, should embrace the true Religion, and be brought into the Church of God. It was often promised to the Patriarchs, that in their Seed all the Nations, or (as it is sometimes expressed) all the Families of the Earth, should be blessed. (See Gen. xii.3. — xviii.18. — xxii.18. — xxvi.4. and xxviii.14.) Agreeable to this, 'tis said of the Messiah, Psal. lxxii.11. That all Nations shall serve him; and in Ver. 17. Men shall be blessed in Him, and all Nations shall call him blessed. And in Isai. ii.2. it is said, that All Nations shall flow unto the Mountain of the House of the Lord. And, Jer. iii.17. That all Nations shall be gathered unto the Name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and shall walk no more after the Imagination of their evil Heart. So it is said, That all Flesh shall come and worship before the Lord,