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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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(3.) In this World Ministers and their People often meet together to hear of and wait upon an unseen Lord; but at the Day of Judgment, they shall meet in his most immediate and visible Presence.
Ministers, who now often meet their People to preach to 'em the King eternal, immortal and invisible, to convince 'em that there is a God, and declare to 'em what Manner of Being he is, and to convince 'em that he governs, and will judge the World, and that there is a future State of Rewards and Punishments, and to preach to 'em a Christ in Heaven, at the right Hand of God, in an unseen World, shall then meet their People in the most immediate sensible Presence of this great God, Saviour and Judge, appearing in the most plain, visible and open Manner, with great Glory, with all his holy Angels, before them and the whole World. They shall ⟨p. 11⟩not meet them to hear about an absent Christ, an unseen Lord, and future Judge; but to appear before that Judge, and as being set together in the Presence of that supreme Lord, in his immense Glory and awful Majesty, whom they have heard so often of in their Meetings together on Earth.
(4.) The Meeting, at the last Day, of Ministers and the People that have been under their Care, will not be attended, by any one, with a careless heedless Heart.