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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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That the Saints in Heaven have such a Communion with CHRIST in his Joy, and do so partake with him in his own Enjoyment of the Father, does greatly manifest the transcendent Excellency of their Happiness, and their being admitted to a vastly higher Privilege in Glory thou the Angels.
That the Saints in Heaven have such a Communion with CHRIST in his Joy, and do so partake with him in his own Enjoyment of the Father, does greatly manifest the transcendent Excellency of their Happiness, and their being admitted to a vastly higher Priviledge in Glory thon the Angels.
2. The Saints in Heaven are received to a Fellowship, or Participation with CHRIST, in the Glory of that Dominion to which the Father hath exalted him.
The Saints, when they ascend to Heaven as CHRIST ascended, and are made to sit together with him in heavenly Places, and are Partakers of the Glory of his Exaltation, are exalted to reign with him. They are through him made Kings and Priests, and reign with him, and in him, over the same Kingdom. As the Father hath appointed unto him a Kingdom, so he has appointed to them. The Father has appointed the Son to reign over his own Kingdom, and the Son appoints his Saints to reign in his. The Father has given to CHRIST to sit with him on his Throne, and Christ gives to the Saints to sit with him on his Throne; agreeable to CHRIST's Promise Rev. iii.21. CHRIST, as GOD's Son, is the Heir of his Kingdom; and the Saints are Joint-Heirs with CHRIST; which implies that they are Heirs of the same Inheritance, to possess the same Kingdom, in and with him, according to their Capacity. CHRIST in his Kingdom reigns over Heaven and Earth; he is appointed the Heir of all Things; and so all Things are the Saints; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the World, or Life, or Death, or Things present, or Things to come, all are theirs; because they are CHRIST's, and united to him;