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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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After he came to be in so low a State, that he ceased to have the least Expectation of Recovery, his Mind was peculiarly carried forth with earnest Concern for the Prosperity of the Church of GOD on Earth: Which seemed very manifestly to arise from a pure disinterested Love to CHRIST, and Desire of his Glory. The Prosperity of Zion, was a Theme that he dwelt much upon, and spake much of; and more and more, the nearer Death approached. He told me when near his End, that he never, in all his Life, had his Mind so led forth in Desires and earnest Prayers for the flourishing of CHRIST'S Kingdom on Earth, as since he was brought so exceeding low at Boston. He seemed much to wonder, that there appeared no more of a Disposition in Ministers and People, to pray for the flourishing of Religion through the World. And particularly, he several Times expressed his Wonder, that there appeared no more Forwardness to comply with the Proposal lately made from Scotland, for united extraordinary Prayer among GOD's People, for the Coming of CHRIST'S Kingdom, and sent it as his dying Advice to his own Congregation, that they should practise agreeable to that Proposal.
After he came to be in so low a State, that he ceased to have the least Expectation of Recovery, his Mind was peculiarly carried forth with earnest Concern for the Prosperity of the Church of GOD on Earth: Which seem'd very manifestly to arise from a pure disinterested Love to CHRIST, and Desire of his Glory. The Prosperity of Zion, was a Theme that he dwelt much upon, and spake much of; and more and more, the nearer Death approach'd. He told me when near his End, that he never, in all his Life, had his Mind so led forth in Desires and earnest Prayers for the flourishing of CHRIST'S Kingdom on Earth, as since he was brought so exceeding low at Boston. He seem'd much to wonder, that there appeared no more of a Disposition in Ministers and People, to pray for the flourishing of Religion through the World. And particularly, he several Times express'd his Wonder, that there appear'd no more Forwardness to comply with the Proposal lately made from Scotland, for united extraordinary Prayer among GOD's People, for the Coming of CHRIST'S Kingdom, and sent it as his dying Advice to his own Congregation, that they should practise agreeable to that Proposal.