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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 many other parallel Places. The Saints in ⟨p. 22⟩Heaven will be as much with CHRIST in reigning over the Nations, and in the Glory of his Dominion at that Time, as they will be with him in the Honour of judging the World at the last Day. That Promise of CHRIST to his Disciples Matt. xix.28, 29. seems to have a special Respect to the former of these. In Ver. 28. CHRIST promises to the Disciples that hereafter, when the Son of Man shall sit on the Throne of his Glory, they shall sit on twelve Thrones, judging the twelve Tribes of Israel. The Saints in Heaven reigning on Earth, in the glorious latter Day, is described in Language accommodated to this Promise of CHRIST, Rev. xx.4. And I saw Thrones, and they sat upon them; and Judgment was given them. — And they reigned with CHRIST. And the Promise in the next Verse in that xixth of Matth. seems to have its Fulfilment at the same Time; And every one that hath forsaken Houses, or Brethren, or Sisters, or Fathers, or Wife, or Children, or Lands, for my Name Sake, shall receive an Hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting Life, i. e. in the Time when the Saints shall inherit the Earth and reign on Earth, the Earth with all its Blessings and good Things, shall be given, in great Abundance, to the Church, to be possessed by the Saints. This shall they receive in this present World; and in the Time to come, everlasting Life. The Saints in Heaven shall partake with CHRIST in the Triumph and Glory of those Victories that he shall obtain in that future glorious Time, over the Kings and Nations of the World, that are sometimes represented by his ruling them with a Rod of Iron, and dashing them in Pieces as a Potter's Vessel. Which doubtless there is Respect to in Rev. ii.26, 27. He that overcometh, and keepeth my Words to the End, to him will I give Power over the Nations; and he shall rule them with a Rod of Iron, as the Vessels of a Potter shall they be broken to Shivers; even as I received of my Father. And Psal. cxlix.5. to the End, Let the Saints be joyful in Glory; let them sing aloud upon their Beds; (i. e. in their separate State after Death, compare