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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.
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He had extraordinary Gifts for the Pulpit. I never had Opportunity to hear him preach, but have often heard him pray: And I think his Manner of addressing himself to GOD, and expressing himself before him, in that Duty, almost inimitable; such (so far as I may judge) as I have very rarely known equalled. He expressed himself with that exact Propriety and Pertinency, in such significant, weighty, pungent Expressions; with that decent Appearance of Sincerity, Reverence and Solemnity, and great Distance from all Affectation, as forgetting the Presence of Men, and as being in the immediate Presence of a great and holy GOD, that I have scarcely ever known paralleled. And his Manner of Preaching, by what I have often heard of it from good Judges, was no […] excellent; being clear and instructive ⟨p. 28⟩natural, nervous, forcible and moving, and very searching and convincing. He nauseated an affected Noisiness, and violent Boisterousness in the Pulpit; and yet much disrelished a flat cold Delivery, when the Subject of Discourse, and Matter delivered, required Affection and Earnestness.
He had extraordinary Gifts for the Pulpit. I never had Opportunity to hear him preach, but have often heard him pray: And I think his Manner of addressing himself to GOD, and expressing himself before him, in that Duty, almost inimitable; such (so far as I may judge) as I have very rarely known equalled. He expressed himself with that exact Propriety and Pertinency, in such significant, weighty, pungent Expressions; with that decent Appearance of Sincerity, Reverence and Solemnity, and great Distance from all Affectation, as forgetting the Presence of Men, and as being in the immediate Presence of a great and holy GOD, that I have scarcely ever known parallel'd. And his Manner of Preaching, by what I have often heard of it from good Judges, was no 〈…〉 excellent; being clear and instructive ⟨p. 28⟩natural, nervous, forceable and moving, and very searching and convincing. He nauseated an affected Noisiness, and violent Boisterousness in the Pulpit; and yet much disrelished a flat cold Delivery, when the Subject of Discourse, and Matter deliver'd, required Affection and Earnestness.