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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.
And let Children obey their Parents, and yield to their Instructions, and submit to their Orders, as they would inherit a Blessing and not a Curse. For we have Reason to think from many Things in the Word of God, that nothing has a greater Tendency to bring a Curse on Persons, in this World, and on all their temporal Concerns, than an undutiful, unsubmissive, disorderly Behaviour in Children towards their Parents.
2. As you would seek the future Prosperity of this Society, 'tis of vast Importance that you should avoid Contention.
A contentious People will be a miserable People. The Contentions which have been among you, since I first became your Pastor, have been one of the greatest Burdens I have laboured under in the Course of my Ministry: Not only the Contentions you have had with me, but those which you have had one with another, about your Lands, and other Concerns. Because I knew that Contention, Heat of Spirit, Evil-speaking, & Things of the like Nature, were directly contrary to the Spirit of Christianity, and did in a peculiar Manner tend to drive away God's Spirit from a People, and to render all Means of Grace ineffectual, as well as to destroy a People's outward Comfort and Welfare.