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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.
(1.) Now they meet together in a preparatory mutable State, but then in an unchangeable State.
Now Sinners in the Congregation meet their Minister in a State wherein they are capable of a saving Change, capable of being turned, through' God's Blessing on the Ministrations and Labours of their Pastor, from the Power of Satan unto God, and being brought out of a State of Guilt, Condemnation and Wrath, to a State of Peace and Favour with God, to the Enjoyment of the Privileges of his Children, and a Title to their eternal Inheritance. And Saints now meet their Minister with great Remains of Corruption, and sometimes under great spiritual Difficulties and Affliction: And therefore are yet the proper Subjects of Means of an happy Alteration of their State, consisting in a greater Freedom from these Things; which they have Reason to hope for in the Way of an Attendance on Ordinances; and of which God is pleased commonly to make his Ministers the Instruments. And Ministers and their People now meet in Order to the bringing to pass such happy Changes; they are the great Benefits sought in their solemn Meetings in this World.
Now Sinners in the Congregation meet their Minister in a State wherein they are capable of a saving Change, capable of being turned, thro' God's Blessing on the Ministrations and Labours of their Pastor, from the Power of Satan unto God, and being brought out of a State of Guilt, Condemnation and Wrath, to a State of Peace and Favour with God, to the Enjoyment of the Privileges of his Children, and a Title to their eternal Inheritance. And Saints now meet their Minister with great Remains of Corruption, and sometimes under great spiritual Difficulties and Affliction: And therefore are yet the proper Subjects of Means of an happy Alteration of their State, consisting in a greater Freedom from these Things; which they have Reason to hope for in the Way of an Attendance on Ordinances; and of which God is pleased commonly to make his Ministers the Instruments. And Ministers and their People now meet in Order to the bringing to pass such happy Changes; they are the great Benefits sought in their solemn Meetings in this World.