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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
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Ministers and the People that have been under their Care, must be parted in this World, how well soever they have been united: If they are not separated before, they must be parted by Death: And they may be separated while Life is continued. We live in a World of Change, where nothing is certain or stable; and where a little Time, a few Revolutions of the Sun, brings to pass strange Things, surprising Alterations, in particular Persons, in Families, in Towns and Churches, in Countries and Nations. It often happens, that those who seem most united, in a little Time are most disunited, and at the greatest Distance. Thus Ministers and People, between whom there has been the greatest mutual Regard and strictest Union, may not only differ in their Judgments, and be alienated in Affection: But one may rend from the other, and all Relation between them be dissolved; the Minister may be removed to a distant Place, and they may never have any more to do one with another in this World. But if it be so, there is one Meeting more that they must have, and that is in the last great Day of Accounts.
Ministers and the People that have been under their Care, must be parted in this World, how well soever they have been united: If they are not separated before, they must be parted by Death: And they may be separated while Life is continued. We live in a World of Change, where nothing is certain or stable; and where a little Time, a few Revolutions of the Sun, brings to pass strange Things, surprizing Alterations, in particular Persons, in Families, in Towns and Churches, in Countries and Nations. It often happens, that those who seem most united, in a little Time are most disunited, and at the greatest Distance. Thus Ministers and People, between whom there has been the greatest mutual Regard and strictest Union, may not only differ in their Judgments, and be alienated in Affection: But one may rend from the other, and all Relation between them be dissolved; the Minister may be removed to a distant Place, and they may never have any more to do one with another in this World. But if it be so, there is one Meeting more that they must have, and that is in the last great Day of Accounts.
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