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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.
2. The future promised Advancement of the Kingdom of Christ is an Event unspeakably happy and glorious. The Scriptures speak of that Time, as a Time wherein God and his Son Jesus Christ will be most eminently glorified on Earth; a Time, wherein God, who 'till then had dwelt between the Cherubims, and concealed himself in the Holy of Holies, in the Secret of his Tabernacle, behind the Veil, in the thick Darkness, should openly shine forth, and all Flesh should see his Glory, and God's People in general have as great a Privilege as the High Priest alone had once a Year, o• […] Moses […] in ⟨p. 40⟩the Mount; a Time, wherein the Temple of God in Heaven should be opened, and there should be seen the Ark of his Testament; (Rev. xi.19.)—A Time, wherein both God will be greatly glorified, and his Saints made unspeakably happy in the View of his Glory; a Time, wherein God's People should not only once see the Light of God's Glory, as Moses, or see it once a Year with the High Priest, but should dwell and walk continually in it, and it should be their constant daily Light, instead of the Light of the Sun (Isai. ii.5. Psal. lxxxix.15. Isai. lx.19.) which Light should be so much more glorious than the Light of the Sun or Moon, that the Moon shall be confounded, and the Sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts should reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem before his Ancients gloriously; Isai. xxiv.23.
2. The future promised Advancement of the Kingdom of Christ is an Event unspeakably happy and glorious. The Scriptures speak of that Time, as a Time wherein God and his Son Jesus Christ will be most eminently glorified on Earth; a Time, wherein God, who 'till then had dwelt between the Cherubims, and concealed himself in the Holy of Holies, in the Secret of his Tabernacle, behind the Veil, in the thick Dark••ss, should openly shine forth, and all Flesh should see his Glory, and God's People in general have as great a Priviledge as the High Priest alone had once a Year, o Moses in