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A farewell-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's public rejection…A farewel-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's publick rejection…
A farewell-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's public rejection of their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church there, on June 22, 1750. : Occasioned by difference of sentiments, concerning the requisite qualifications of members of the church, in complete standing. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]A farewel-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's publick rejection of their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church there, on June 22, 1750. : Occasion'd by difference of sentiments, concerning the requisite qualifications of members of the church, in compleat standing. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland over agianst the prison, 1751
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Henceforward I am like to have no more Opportunity to take the Care and Charge of your Souls, to examine and search them. But still I entreat you to remember and consider the Rules which I have often laid down to you, during my Ministry, with a solemn Regard to the future Day when you and I must meet together before our Judge; when the Uses of Examination you have have heard from me must be rehearsed again before you, and those Rules of Trial must be tried, and it will appear whether they have been good or not; and it will also appear whether you have impartially heard them & tried your-selves by them; and the Judge himself who is Infallible will try both you and me: And after this none will be deceived concerning the State of their Souls.
Henceforward I am like to have no more Opportunity to take the Care and Charge of your Souls, to examine and search them. But still I intreat you to remember and consider the Rules which I have often laid down to you, during my Ministry, with a solemn Regard to the future Day when you and I must meet together before our Judge; when the Uses of Examination you have have heard from me must be rehearsed again before you, and those Rules of Trial must be tried, and it will appear whether they have been good or not; and it will also appear whether you have impartially heard them & tried your-selves by them; and the Judge himself who is Infallible will try both you and me: And after this none will be deceived concerning the State of their Souls.
I have often put you in Mind, that whatever your Pretences to Experiences, Discoveries, Comforts and Joys have been; at that Day every one will be judged according to his Works: And then you will find it so.
May you have a Minister of greater Knowledge of the Word of God, and better Acquaintance with Soul Cases, and of greater Skill in applying himself to Souls, ⟨p. 24⟩