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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.
Thus their Meeting, as to the Manner of it, will be diverse from the Meeting of Mankind in general.
2. Their Meeting at the Day of Judgment will be very diverse from their Meetings one with another in this World.
Ministers and their People, while their Relation continues, often meet together in this World: They are wont to meet from Sabbath to Sabbath, and at other Times, for the public Worship of God, and Administration of Ordinances, and the solemn Services of God's House: And besides these Meetings, they have also Occasions to meet for the determining and managing their ecclesiastical Affairs, for the Exercise of Church-Discipline, and the settling and adjusting those Things which concern the Purity and good Order of public Administrations. But their Meeting at the Day of Judgment will be exceeding diverse, in its Manner and ⟨p. 6⟩Circumstances, from any such Meetings and Interviews as they have one with another in the present State. I would observe, how, in a few Particulars.
Ministers and their People, while their Relation continues, often meet together in this World: They are wont to meet from Sabbath to Sabbath, and at other Times, for the publick Worship of God, and Administration of Ordinances, and the solemn Services of God's House: And besides these Meetings, they have also Occasions to meet for the determining and managing their ecclesiastical Affairs, for the Exercise of Church-Discipline, and the settling and adjusting those Things which concern the Purity and good Order of publick Administrations. But their Meeting at the Day of Judgment will be exceeding diverse, in its Manner and ⟨p. 6⟩