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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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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; 1 Cor. iii.21, 22, 23. The Angels are given to CHRIST, as a Part of his Dominion; they are all given to wait upon him, as ministering Spirits to him: so also they are all, even the highest and most dignified of them, ministering Spirits, to minister to them who are the ⟨p. 18⟩Heirs of Salvation. They are CHRIST's Angels, and they are also their Angels. Such is the Saints Union with CHRIST, and their Interest in him, that what he possesses, they possess, in a much more perfect and blessed Manner, than if all Things were given to them separately and by themselves, to be disposed of according to their Discretion. They are now disposed of so, as in every Respect, to be most for their Blessedness, by an infinitely better Discretion than their own; and in being disposed of by their Head and Husband, between whom and them there is the most perfect Union of Hearts, and so the most perfect Union of Wills; and who are most perfectly each other's.