Abstract
When Edward Johnson needed to express his deepest hopes about history, he found in the Bible an encoded emblem for the destiny of America. In the proclamation from Christ's herald that beginsThe Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England, he concludes with an urgent appeal to all believers:Pray, pray, pray, pray continually with the valiant worthyJoshuathat the Sun may stand still inGibeon, and the Moone in the vally ofAijalon, for assuredly although some small battailes may be fought against the enemies ofChrist, yet the great day of their finall overthrow shall not come till the bright Sonne of that one cleare truth ofChrist, stands still in the Gentile Churches, that those who fight the Lords Battells may plainly discerne his enemies in all places, where they finde them, as also such as will continue fighting must have the World kept low in their eyes, as the Moon in the valley ofAijalon.
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