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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.
—A Time of wonderful Union, and the most universal Peace, Love and sweet Harmony; wherein the Nations shall beat their Swords into Plough-shares, &c. and God will cause Wars to cease to the Ends of the Earth, and break the Bow, and cut the Spear in sunder, and burn the Chariot in the Fire; and the Mountains shall bring forth Peace to God's People, and the little Hills by Righteousness; wherein the Wolf should dwell with the Lamb, &c. and wherein God's ⟨p. 42⟩People shall dwell in a peaceable Habitation, and in sure Dwellings, and quiet Resting-Places; (Isai. xxxii.17, 18. and xxxiii.20, 21.) A Time wherein all Heresies and false Doctrines shall be exploded, and the Church of God shall not be rent with a Variety of jarring Opinions, (Zech. xiv.9. The Lord shall be King over all the Earth: In that Day there shall be one Lord, and his Name one.) And all superstitious Ways of Worship shall be abolished, and all agree in worshipping God in his own appointed Way, and agreeable to the Purity of his Institutions; (Jer. xxxii.39. I will give them one Heart and one Way, that they may fear me forever, for the Good of them and their Children after them.) A Time wherein the whole Earth shall be united as one holy City, one heavenly Family, Men of all Nations shall as it were dwell together, and sweetly correspond one with another as Brethren and Children of the same Father, as the Prophecies often speak of all God's People at that Time as the Children of God, and Brethren one to another, all appointing over 'em one Head, gathered to one House of God, to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts.—A Time wherein this whole great Society shall appear in glorious Beauty, in genuine amiable Christianity, and excellent Order, as a City compact together, the Perfection of Beauty, an eternal Excellency, shining with a Reflection of the Glory of Jehovah risen upon it, which shall be attractive and ravishing to all Kings and Nations, and it shall appear as a Bride adorned for her Husband.—A Time of great temporal Prosperity; of great Health, (Isai. xxxiii.24. The Inhabitant shall not say, I am sick.) of long Life; (