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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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Absent from the Body, AND Present with the LORD. › APPLICATION.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
His Convictions of Sin, preceding his first Consolations in CHRIST (as appears by a written Account he has left of his inward Exercises and Experiences) were exceeding deep and thorough: His Trouble and Exercise of Mind, through a Sense of Guilt and Misery, very great and long-continued; but yet sound and solid; consisting in no unsteady, violent, and unaccountable Hurries and Frights, and strange Perturbations of Mind; but arising from the most serious Consideration, and proper Illumination of the Conscience, to discern and consider the true State of Things. And the Light let into his Mind at Conversion, and the Influences and Exercises that his Mind was subject to at that Time, appear very agreeable to Reason, and the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST; the Change very great and remarkable, without any Appearance of strong Impressions ⟨p. 27⟩on the Imagination, sudden Flights and Pangs of the Affections, and vehement Emotions in animal Nature; but attended with proper intellectual Views of the supreme Glory of the divine Being, consisting in the infinite Dignity and Beauty of the Perfections of his Nature; and of the transcendent Excellency of the Way of Salvation by CHRIST.— This was about eight Years ago, when he was about 21 Years of Age.
His Convictions of Sin, preceeding his first Consolations in CHRIST (as appears by a written Account he has left of his inward Exercises and Experiences) were exceeding deep and thorough: His Trouble and Exercise of Mind, through a Sense of Guilt and Misery, very great and long-continued; but yet sound and solid; consisting in no unsteady, violent, and unaccountable Hurries and Frights, and strange Perturbations of Mind; but arising from the most serious Consideration, and proper Illumination of the Conscience, to discern and consider the true State of Things. And the Light let into his Mind at Conversion, and the Influences and Exercises that his Mind was subject to at that Time, appear very agreeable to Reason, and the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST; the Change very great and remarkable, without any Appearance of strong Impressions ⟨p. 27⟩on the Imagination, sudden Flights and Pangs of the Affections, and vehement Emotions in animal Nature; but attended with proper intellectual Views of the supream Glory of the divine Being, consisting in the infinite Dignity and Beauty of the Perfections of his Nature; and of the transcendant Excellency of the Way of Salvation by CHRIST.— This was about eight Years ago, when he was about 21 Years of Age.