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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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When we are absent from our dear Friends, they are out of Sight; but when we are with them, we have the Opportunity and Satisfaction of seeing them. So while the Saints are in the Body, and are absent from the Lord, he is in several Respects out of Sight; 1 Pet. i.8: Whom having not seen, ye l•ve: In whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, &c. They have indeed, in this World, a spiritual Sight of CHRIST; but they see through a Glass darkly, and with great Interruption: But in Heaven, they see him Face to Face, 1 Cor. xiii.12. The Pure in Heart are blessed; for they shall see GOD, Matth. v.8. Their beatifical Vision of GOD is in CHRIST, who is that Brightness or Effulgence of GOD's Glory, by which his Glory shines forth in Heaven, to the View of Saints and Angels there, as well as here on Earth. This is the Sun of Righteousness, that is not only the Light of this World, but is also the Sun that enlightens the heavenly Jerusalem; by whose bright Beams it is that the Glory of GOD shines forth there, to the enlightening and making happy all the glorious Inhabitants. The Lamb is the Light thereof; and so the Glory of GOD doth lighten it; Rev. xxi.23. None sees GOD the Father immediately, who is the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible: CHRIST is the Image of that Invisible GOD, by which he is seen by all Elect Creatures. The only-begotten Son that is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him, and manifested him. None has ever immediately seen the Father, but the Son; and none else sees the Father any other Way, than by the Son's revealing him. And in Heaven, the Spirits of just Men made perfect do see him as he is. They behold his Glory. They see the Glory of his divine Nature, consisting in all the Glory of the Godhead, the Beauty of all his Perfections; his great Majesty, almighty Power, his infinite Wisdom, Holiness and Grace, and they see the Beauty of his glorified human Nature, and the Glory which the Father hath given him, as GOD-Man and Mediator. For this End CHRIST desired that his ⟨p. 11⟩Saints might be with him, that they might behold his Glory,