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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.
He greatly nauseated a Disposition in Persons to much Noise and Show in Religion, and affecting to be abundant in publishing and proclaim• their own Experiences. Though he did not condemn, but approved of Christians speaking of their Experiences, on some Occasions, and to some Persons, with Modesty, Discretion and Reserve. He abominated the Spirit and Practice of the Generality of the Separatists in this Land. I heard him say, once and again, that he had been much with this Kind of People, and was acquainted with many of them, in various Parts; and that by this Acquaintance, he knew that what was chiefly and most generally in Repute amongst them, as the Power of Godliness, was entirely a different Thing from that vital Piety recommended in the Scripture, and had nothing in it of that Nature. He never was more full in condemning these Things than in his last Illness, and after he ceased to have any Expectation of Life: And particularly when he had the greatest and nearest Views of approaching Eternity; and several Times, ⟨p. 31⟩when he thought himself actually dying, and expected in a few Minutes to be in the eternal World, as he himself told me.*
He greatly nauseated a Disposition in Persons to much Noise and Show in Religion, and affecting to be abundant in publishing and proclaim• their own Experiences. Though he did not condemn, but approved of Christians speaking of their Experiences, on some Occasions, and to some Persons, with Modesty, Discretion and Reserve. He abominated the Spirit and Practice of the Generality of the Separatists in this Land. I heard him say, once and again, that he had been much with this Kind of People, and was acquainted with many of them, in various Parts; and that by this Acquaintance, he knew that what was chiefly and most generally in Repute amongst them, as the Power of Godliness, was intirely a different Thing from that vital Piety recommended in the Scripture, and had nothing in it of that Nature. He never was more full in condemning these Things than in his last Illness, and after he ceased to have any Expectation of Life: And particularly when he had the greatest and nearest Views of approaching Eternity; and several Times, ⟨p. 31⟩