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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 thither it was that the Soul of the penitent Thief on the Cross ascended. CHRIST said to him, to Day, shall thou be with me in Paradise. Paradise is the same with the third Heaven; as appears by 2 Cor. xii.2, 3, 4. There that which is called the third Heaven in the 2d Verse, in the 4th Verse is called Paradise. The departed Souls of the Apostles and Prophets are in Heaven; as is manifest from Rev. xviii.20. Rejoice over her, thou Heaven, and ye •oly Apostles and Prophets. The Church of GOD is distinguished in Scripture, from Time to Time, into these two Parts; that Part of it that is in Heaven, and that which is in Earth; Eph. iii.14, 15. JESUS CHRIST, of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named. Col. i.20. And having made Peace by the Blood of his Cross, by him to reconcile all Things to himself; by him, I say, whether they be Things in Earth, or Things in Heaven. Now what Things in Heaven are they for whom Peace has been made by the Blood of CHRIST'S Cross, and who have by him been reconciled to GOD, but the Saints in Heaven? In like manner we read (Eph. 1.10. of GOD's gathering together in one, all Things, in CHRIST; b•th which are in Heaven, and which are on Earth; even in him. The Spirits of just Men made perfect are in the same City of the living GOD, and heavenly Jerusalem, with the innumerable Company of Angels, and JESUS the Mediator of the new Covenant; as is manifest by Heb. xii.22, 23, 24. The Church of GOD is often in Scripture called by the Name of ⟨p. 10⟩Jerusalem: and the Apostle speaks of the Jerusalem which is above, or which is in Heaven, as the Mother of us all: But if no Part of the Church be in Heaven, or none but Enoch and Elijah, 'tis not likely that the Church would be called the Jerusalem which is in Heaven.