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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 in the same Prayer, he manifests it to be his Will, that his true Disciples should be with him in the Enjoyment of that Joy and Glory, which he then asked for himself; Ver. 13. That my Joy might be fulfilled in themselves. Ver. 22. And the Glory which thou gavest me, have I given them. This Glory and Joy of CHRIST, which the Saints are to enjoy with him, is that which he has in the Enjoyment of the Father's infinite Love to him; as appears by the last Words of that Prayer of our LORD, Ver. 26. — That the Love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them. The Love which the Father has to his Son is great indeed; the Deity does as it were wholly and entirely flow out in a Stream of Love to CHRIST; and the Joy and Pleasure of CHRIST is proportionably great. This is the Stream of CHRIST'S Delights, the River of his infinite Pleasure; which he will make his Saints to drink of with him; agreeable to Psal. xxxvi.8, 9. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the Fatness of thy House: Thou shalt make them drink of the River of THY Pleasures: For with thee is the Fountain of Life: in THY Light shall we see Light. The Saints shall have Pleasure, in partaking with CHRIST in his Pleasure, and shall see Light in his Light. They shall partake with CHRIST of the same River of Pleasure; shall drink of the same Water of Life; and of the same new Wine in Christ's Father's Kingdom; Matt. xxvi.29. That new ⟨p. 17⟩Wine is especially that Joy and Happiness that CHRIST and his true Disciples shall partake of together in Glory, which is the Purchase of CHRIST'S Blood, or the Reward of his Obedience unto Death. CHRIST, at his Ascension into Heaven, received everlasting Pleasures at his Father's Right-Hand, and in the Enjoyment of his Father's Love, as the Re••rd of his own Death, or Obedience un•• Death. But the […] Righteousness is reckoned to both Head and Members; and both shall have Fellowship in the same Reward, each according to their distinct Capacity.
And in the same Prayer, he manifests it to be his Will, that his true Disciples should be with him in the Enjoyment of that Joy and Glory, which he then asked for himself; Ver. 13. That my Joy might be fulfilled in themselves. Ver. 22. And the Glory which thou gavest me, have I given them. This Glory and Joy of CHRIST, which the Saints are to enjoy with him, is that which he has in the Enjoyment of the Father's infinite Love to him; as appears by the last Words of that Prayer of our LORD, Ver. 26. — That the Love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them. The Love which the Father has to his Son is great indeed; the Deity does as it were wholly and entirely flow out in a Stream of Love to CHRIST; and the Joy and Pleasure of CHRIST is proportionably great. This is the Stream of CHRIST'S Delights, the River of his infinite Pleasure; which he will make his Saints to drink of with him; agreeable to