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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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They have a most clear View of the unfathomable Depths of the manifold Wisdom and Knowledge of GOD; and the most bright Displays of the infinite Purity and Holiness of GOD, that do appear in that Way and Work: And see in another-guess Manner, than the Saints do here, what is the Breadth and Length and Depth and Height of the Grace and Love of CHRIST, appearing in his Redemption. And as they see the unspeakable Riches and Glory of the Attribute of GOD's Grace, so they most clearly behold and understand CHRIST'S eternal and unmeasurable dying Love to them in particular. And in short they see every Thing in CHRIST that tends to kindle and inflame Love, and every Thing that tends to gratify Love, and every Thing that tends to satisfy them: And that in the most clear and glorious Manner, without any Darkness or Delusion, without any Impediment or Interruption. Now the Saints, while in the Body, see something of CHRIST'S Glory and Love; as we, in the Dawning of the Morning, see something of the reflected Light of the Sun mingled with Darkness: But when separated from the Body, they see their glorious and loving Redeemer, as we see the Sun when risen, and showing his whole Disk above the Horizon, by his direct Beams, in a clear Hemisphere, and with perfect Day.
They have a most clear View of the unfathomable Depths of the manifold Wisdom and Knowledge of GOD; and the most bright Displays of the infinite Purity and Holiness of GOD, that do appear in that Way and Work: And see in another-guess Manner, than the Saints do here, what is the Breadth and Length and Depth and Height of the Grace and Love of CHRIST, appearing in his Redemption. And as they see the unspeakable Riches and Glory of the Attribute of GOD's Grace, so they most clearly behold and understand CHRIST'S eternal and unmeasurable dying Love to them in particular. And in short they see every Thing in CHRIST that tends to kindle and enflame Love, and every Thing that tends to gratify Love, and every Thing that tends to satisfy them: And that in the most clear and glorious Manner, without any Darkness or Delusion, without any Impediment or Interruption. Now the Saints, while in the Body, see something of CHRIST'S Glory and Love; as we, in the Dawning of the Morning, see something of the reflected Light of the Sun mingled with Darkness: But when separated from the Body, they see their glorious and loving Redeemer, as we see the Sun when risen, and shewing his whole Disk above the Horizon, by his direct Beams, in a clear Hemisphere, and with perfect Day.