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True saints, when absent from the body, are present with the Lord. A sermon…
True saints, when absent from the body, are present with the Lord. A sermon preached on the day of the funeral of the Rev. Mr. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a church of Christian Indians in New-Jersey; who died at Northampton, in New-England, Octob. 9th. 1747, in the 30th year of his age, and was interred on the 12th following. : Containing some account of his character, and manner of life, and remarkable speeches and behaviour at death. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; [Five lines from Psalms]True saints, when absent from the body, are present with the Lord. A sermon preached on the day of the funeral of the Rev. Mr. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a church of Christian Indians in New-Jersey; who died at Northampton, in New-England, Octob. 9th. 1747, in the 30th year of his age, and was interred on the 12th following. : Containing some account of his character, and manner of life, and remarkable speeches and behavior at death. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; [Five lines from Psalms]
printed by Rogers and Fowle for D. Henchman, 1747
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And therefore there is a certain Place, a particular Part of the external Creation, to which CHRIST is gone, and where He remains. And this Place is that which we call the highest Heaven, or the Heaven of Heavens ▪ a Place beyond all the visible Heavens. Eph. iv.9, 10. Now that he ascended, what is it, but that he also descended first, into the lower Parts of the Earth? He that descended, is the same also that ascended up, far above all Heavens. This is the same which the Apostle calls The third Heaven, 2 Cor. xii.2. reckoning the Aerial Heaven as the first, the starry Heaven as the second, and the highest Heaven as the third. This is the Abode of the holy Angels: they are called the Angels of Heaven, Matt. xxiv.36. The Angels which are in Heaven, Mark xiii.32. The Angels of GOD in Heaven, Matt. xxii.30. and Mark xii.25. They are said always to beh•ld the Face of the Father which is in Heaven, Mat. xviii.10. And they are elsewhere often represented as before the Throne of GOD, or surrounding his Throne in Heaven, and sent from thence, and descending from thence on Messages ⟨p. 8⟩to this World. And thither it is that the Souls of departed Saints are conducted, when they die. They are not reserved in some Abode distinct from the highest Heaven; a Place of Rest, which they are kept in, till the Day of Judgment; such as some imagine, which they call the Hades of the happy: but they go directly to Heaven it self. This is the Saints Home, being their Father's House: they are Pilgrims and Strangers on the Earth, and this is the other and better Country that they are travelling to: (Heb. xi.13 — 16