God will revive his work again before long

 

We live in a day wherein God is doing marvellous things; in that respect we are distinguished from former generations. God has wrought great things in New England, which, though exceeding glorious, have all along been attended with some threatening clouds; which from the beginning caused me to apprehend some great stop or check to be put to the work, before it should be begun and carried on in its genuine purity and beauty, to subdue all before it, and to prevail with an irresistible and continual progress and triumph; and it is come to pass according to my apprehensions. 

But yet I cannot think otherwise, than that what has now been doing, is the forerunner of something vastly greater, more pure, and more extensive. 

I can't think that God has come down from heaven, and done such great things before our eyes, and gone so much beside and beyond his usual way of working, and wrought so wonderfully, and that he has gone away with a design to leave things thus. "Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things?" 

And will God, when he has wrought so unusually, and made the earth "to bring forth in one day, […] bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth?" 

And shall he "cause to bring forth and shut the womb?" (Isaiah 66:8–9) 

I live upon the brink of the grave, in great infirmity of body, and nothing is more uncertain than whether I shall live to see it: but I believe God will revive his work again before long, and that it will not wholly cease till it has subdued the whole earth.

Importune

The unusual word "importune" appears only in the D&C, but "importunity" appears once in the KJV.

 76 And again I say unto you, those who have been scattered by their enemies, it is my will that they should continue to importune for redress, and redemption, by the hands of those who are placed as rulers and are in authority over you—

(Doctrine and Covenants 101:76)

85 Thus will I liken the children of Zion.

86 Let them importune at the feet of the judge;

87 And if he heed them not, let them importune at the feet of the governor;

88 And if the governor heed them not, let them importune at the feet of the president;

(Doctrine and Covenants 101:85–88)

8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

(Luke 11:8)

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Edwards used "importune" and other forms.

1808 edition (19 results for importunate and importunity):

to signify importunity in prayers, as is used in Isa 62:6, 7.

his people be earnestly seeking and waiting, and importunately and incessantly crying to God for it

day and night crying to him with exceeding importunity

God makes it the duty of his church to be importunately praying for it

Other uses:

importune (7 x in sermons)

if a Person has much offended a superiour & afterwards is fore s is forced to Come to him & Importune him for a some Kindness or help that he stands