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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 CHRIST ascended into Heaven, he was received to a glorious and peculiar Joy and Blessedness in the Enjoyment of his Father, who in his Passion hid his Face from him; such an Enjoyment as became the Relation he stood in to the Father, and such as was a meet Reward for the great and hard Service he had performed on Earth. Then GOD showed him the Path of Life, and brought him into his Presence, where is Fullness of Joy, and to sit on his Right-Hand, where there are Pleasures for evermore, as is said of CHRIST, Psal. xvi.11. Then the Father made him most blessed forever: He made him exceeding glad with his Countenance; as in Psal. xxi.6. The Saints by Virtue of their Union with CHRIST, and being his Members, do in some Sort, partake of his Child-like Relation to the Father; and so are Heirs with him of his Happiness in the Enjoyment of his Father; as seems to be intimated by the Apostle in Gal. iv.4—7. The Spouse of CHRIST, by Virtue of her Espousals to that only begotten SON of GOD, is as it were, a Partaker of his filial Relation to GOD, and becomes the ⟨p. 16⟩King's Daughter; Psal. xlv.13. and so partakes with her divine Husband in his Enjoyment of his Father and her Father, his GOD and her GOD. A Promise of this seems to be implied in those Words of CHRIST to Mary, John xx.17. Thus CHRIST'S faithful Servants enter into the Joy of their LORD; Matth. xxv.21, 23. and CHRIST's Joy remains in them; agreeable to those Words of CHRIST, John xv.11. CHRIST from Eternity is as it were in the Bosom of the Father, as the Object of his infinite Complacence. In him is the Father's eternal Happiness. Before the World was, he was with the Father, in the Enjoyment of his infinite Love; and had infinite Delight and Blessedness in that Enjoyment; as he declares of himself in