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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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CHRIST'S Success in his Work of Redemption, in bringing home Souls to himself, applying his saving Benefits by his Spirit, and the Advancement of the Kingdom of Grace in the World, is the Reward especially promised to him by his Father in the Covenant of Redemption, for the hard and difficult Service he performed while in the Form of a Servant; […] is manifest by Isai. liii.10, 11, 12. But the Saints shall be rewarded with him: They shall partake with him in the Joy of this Reward; for this Obedience that is thus rewarded, is reckoned to them, as they are his Members, as was before observed. This was especially the Joy that was set before CHRIST, for the sake of which he endured the Cross and despised the Shame. And his Joy is the Joy of all Heaven. They that are with him in Heaven are under much the greatest Advantages to partake with him in this Joy: For they have a perfect Communion with him, through whom, and in Fellowship with whom, they enjoy and possess their whole Inheritance, all their heavenly Happiness; as much as the whole Body has all it's Pleasure of Music by the Ear, and all the Pleasure of its Food by the Mouth and Stomach; and all the Benefit and Refreshment of the Air by the Lungs. The Saints while on Earth pray and labour for the same Thing that CHRIST laboured for, viz. the Advancement of the Kingdom of GOD among Men, the promoting the Prosperity of Zion and flourishing of Religion in this World, and most of them have suffered for that End, as CHRIST did; have been made Partakers with their Head in his Sufferings, and filled up (as the Apostle expresses it) that which is behind of the Sufferings of CHRIST: And therefore they shall partake with him of the Glory and Joy of the End obtained; Rom. viii.17. We are Joint-Heirs with CHRIST; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 2 Tim. ii.12. If we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him. CHRIST when his Sufferings were past, and he left the Earth, and ascended into Heaven, was so far from having done with his Kingdom in this World, that it was, as it were, but then begun: And he ascended for that very End, that he might more fully possess and enjoy this Kingdom, that he might reign in ⟨p. 21⟩it, and be under the best Advantages for it; as much as a King ascends a Throne in Order to reign over his People, and receive the Honour and Glory of his Dominion.