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The resort and remedy of those that are bereaved by the death of an…
The resort and remedy of those that are bereaved by the death of an eminent minister. A sermon preached at Hatfield, Sept. 2. 1741. Being the day of the interment of the Reverend Mr. William Williams, the aged and venerable pastor of that church. : And published at the united request of those Reverend and honoured gentlemen, the sons of the deceased. As also by the desire and at the expense of the town. / By Jonathan Edwards, M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ at Northampton. ; [Two lines from James]The resort and remedy of those that are bereaved by the death of an eminent minister. A sermon preached at Hatfield, Sept. 2. 1741. Being the day of the interment of the Reverend Mr. William Williams, the aged and venerable pastor of that church. : And published at the united request of those Reverend and honoured gentlemen, the sons of the deceased. As also by the desire and at the expence of the town. / By Jonathan Edwards, M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ at Northampton. ; [Two lines from James]
Boston: printed by G. Rogers for J. Edwards, 1741
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(1.) That whereby they showed their Regard to the Remains of the deceased, They took up the Body and buried it: It had been used in a barbarous Manner by others, that had also been his Hearers, and were under special Obligations to have treated him with Honour. They cruelly murdered him, by severing his Head from his Body; and his Head was carried in a Charger to Herodias, that she, instead of paying that Respect that was due to the Remains of so venerable a Person, might have her Malice and Cruelty gratified by such a Spectacle, and that she might thence take Occasion to insult the Dead. While that Part of the dead Body was thus used by Herodias, his Disciples out of Respect and Honour to their Master and Teacher, decently inter the Rest.
(1.) That whereby they shewed their Regard to the Remains of the deceased, They took up the Body and buried it: It had been used in a barbarous Manner by others, that had also been his Hearers, and were under special Obligations to have treated him with Honour. They cruelly murder'd him, by severing his Head from his Body; and his Head was carried in a Charger to Herodias, that she, instead of paying that Respect that was due to the Remains of so venerable a Person, might have her Malice and Cruelty gratified by such a Spectacle, and that she might thence take Occasion to insult the Dead. While that Part of the dead Body was thus used by Herodias, his Disciples out of Respect and Honour to their Master and Teacher, decently inter the Rest.
(2.) That which they did, consequent on this, for God's Glory and their own Good, They went and told Jesus. Him they knew to be one that their Master John, while he lived, had testified a great Regard to. Jesus was he whose Forerunner John was; whom he had preached, and of whom he had said, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sin of the World: And This is he, of whom I said, after me cometh one that is preferred before me; and whom he saw, and bare Record that this is the Son of God. And probably they knew that Christ was one that had put great Honour upon John their Teacher in his Life-time. For he, though he was the Son of God, and John's Maker and Saviour, yet came to him to be baptized of him, and had said of him, that among those that were born of Women, there had not risen a greater than John the Baptist.