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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 wherein the World shall be delivered from that Multitude of sore Calamities that before had prevailed, (Ezek. xlvii.20.) and there shall be an universal Blessing of God upon Mankind, in Soul and Body, and in all their Concerns, and all Manner of Tokens of God's Presence and Favour, and God shall rejoice over them, as the Bridegroom rejoiceth over his Bride, and the Mountains shall as it were drop down new Wine, and the Hills shall flow with Milk; (Joel iii.18.)—A Time of great and universal Joy through' the Earth, when from the utmost Ends of the Earth shall be heard Songs, even Glory to the Righteous, and God's People shall with Joy draw Water out of the Wells of •alvation, and God shall prepare in his holy Mountain, a Feast of fat Things, a Feast of Wines on the Lees, of fat Things full of Marrow, of Wines on the Lees well refined, which Feast is represented, Rev. xix. as the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb. Yea, the Scriptures represent it not only as a Time of universal Joy on Earth, but extraordinary Joy in Heaven, among the Angels and Saints, the holy Apostles and Prophets there; Rev. xviii.20. and xix.1,—9. Yea, the Scriptures represent it as a Time of extraordinary Rejoicing with Christ himself, the glorious Head, in whom all Things in Heaven and Earth shall then be gathered together in one; Zech. iii.17. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save; he will rejoice over thee with Joy; he will rest in his Love; he will joy over thee with singing. And the very Fields, Trees and Mountains shall then as it were rejoice, and break forth into singing; Isai. lv.12. Ye shall go out with Joy, and be led forth with Peace; the Mountains and the Hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the Trees of the ⟨p. 44⟩Field shall clap their Hands. Isai. xliv.23. Sing, O Heavens, for the Lord hath done it; shout, ye lower Parts of the Earth; break forth into singing, ye Mountains; O Forest, and every Tree therein; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.