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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 several Times spake of the different Kinds of Willingness to die: And spoke of it as an ignoble mean Kind of Willingness to die, to be willing, only to get rid of Pain, or to go to Heaven only to get Honour and Advancement there. H•s own Longings for Death seemed to be quite of a different Kind, and for nobler Ends. When he was first taken with something like a Diarrhea, which is looked upon as one of the last and most fatal Symptoms in a Consumption, he said, O now the glorious Time is coming! I have longed to serve GOD perfectly; and GOD will gratify these Desires. And at one Time and another, in the latter Part of his Illness, he uttered these Expressions. My Heaven is, to please GOD, and glorify him, and give all to him, and to be wholly devoted to his Glory: That is the Heaven I long for: That is my Religion; and that is my Happiness; and always was, ever since I supposed I had any true Religion: And all those that are of that Religion, shall meet me in Heaven. —I don't go to Heaven to be advanced, but to give Honour to GOD. 'Tis no Matter where I shall be stationed in ⟨p. 36⟩Heaven, whether I have a high or low Seat there, but to love and please and glorify GOD.— If I had a Thousand Souls, if they were worth any Thing, I would give 'em all to GOD: But I have nothing to give, when all is done. — It is impossible for any rational Creature to be happy without acting all for GOD: GOD himself could not make me happy any other Way.—I long to be in Heaven, praising and glorifying GOD with the holy Angels; all my Desire is to glorify GOD.—My Heart goe• out to the Burying-Place, it seems to me a desirable Place: But O to glorify GOD! That is it! That is above all!— 'Tis a great Comfort to me to think that I have done a little for GOD in the World: 'Tis but a very small Matter; yet I have done a little; and I lament it that I have not done more for him.—There is nothing in the World worth living for, but doing Good, and finishing God's Work, doing the Work that CHRIST did. I see nothing else in the World that can yield any Satisfaction, besides living to GOD, pleasing him, and doing his whole Will.— My greatest Joy and Comfort has been to do something for promoting the Interest of Religion, and the Souls of particular Persons.*
He several Times spake of the different Kinds of Willingness to die: And spoke of it as an ignoble mean Kind of Willingness to die, to be willing, only to get rid of Pain, or to go to Heaven only to get Honour and Advancement there. Hs own Longings for Death seemed to be quite of a different Kind, and for nobler Ends. When he was first taken with something like a Diarrhea, which is looked upon as one of the last and most fatal Symptoms in a Consumption, he said, O now the glorious Time is coming! I have longed to serve GOD perfectly; and GOD will gratify these Desires. And at one Time and another, in the latter Part of his Illness, he uttered these Expressions. My Heaven is, to please GOD, and glorify him, and give all to him, and to be wholly devoted to his Glory: That is the Heaven I long for: That is my Religion; and that is my Happiness; and always was, ever since I supposed I had any true Religion: And all those that are of that Religion, shall meet me in Heaven. —I don't go to Heaven to be advanced, but to give Honour to GOD. 'Tis no Matter where I shall be station'd in