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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.
I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth. Herein consists Christ's communicative Fullness, even in his being full of the Spirit, and so full of Grace and Truth, that we might of this Fullness receive, and Grace for Grace. He is anointed with the Holy Ghost; and this is the Ointment that goes down from the Head to the Members. God gives the Spirit not by Measure unto him, that every one that is his might receive according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ. This therefore was the great Blessing he prayed for in that wonderful Prayer, that he uttered for his Disciples and all his future Church, the Evening before he died, John xvii: The Blessing he prayed for to the Father, in behalf of his Disciples, was the same he had insisted on in his preceding Discourse with them: And this doubtless was the Blessing that he prayed for, when as our High Priest, he offered up strong Crying and Tears, with his Blood, Heb. v.6, 7. The same that he shed his Blood for, he also shed Tears for, and poured out Prayers for.
I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth. Herein consists Christ's communicative Fulness, even in his being full of the Spirit, and so full of Grace and Truth, that we might of this Fulness receive, and Grace for Grace. He is anointed with the Holy Ghost; and this is the Ointment that goes down from the Head to the Members. God gives the Spirit not by Measure unto him, that every one that is his might receive according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ. This therefore was the great Blessing he prayed for in that wonderful Prayer, that he uttered for his Disciples and all his future Church, the Evening before he died, Iohn xvii: The Blessing he prayed for to the Father, in behalf of his Disciples, was the same he had insisted on in his preceeding Discourse with them: And this doubtless was the Blessing that he prayed for, when as our High Priest, he offered up strong Crying and Tears, with his Blood, Heb. v.6, 7. The same that he shed his Blood for, he also shed Tears for, and poured out Prayers for.