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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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With such an Heart are their Meetings often attended in this World, by many Persons, having little Regard to Him whom they pretend unitedly to adore in the solemn Duties of his public Worship, taking little heed to their own Thoughts or Frame of their Minds, not attending to the Business they are engaged in, or considering the End for which they are come together: But the Meeting at that great Day will be very different; there will not be one careless Heart, no sleeping, no wandering of Mind from the great Concern of the Meeting, no Inattentiveness to the Business of the Day, no Regardlessness of the Presence they are in, or of those great Things which they shall hear from Christ at that Meeting, or that they formerly heard from Him and of Him by their Ministers, in their Meetings in a State of Trial, or which they shall now hear their Ministers declaring concerning them before their Judge.
With such an Heart are their Meetings often attended in this World, by many Persons, having little Regard to Him whom they pretend unitedly to adore in the solemn Duties of his publick Worship, taking little heed to their own Thoughts or Frame of their Minds, not attending to the Business they are engaged in, or considering the End for which they are come together: But the Meeting at that great Day will be very different; there will not be one careless Heart, no sleeping, no wandring of Mind from the great Concern of the Meeting, no Inattentiveness to the Business of the Day, no Regardlesness of the Presence they are in, or of those great Things which they shall hear from Christ at that Meeting, or that they formerly heard from Him and of Him by their Ministers, in their Meetings in a State of Trial, or which they shall now hear their Ministers declaring concerning them before their Judge.
Having observed these Things, concerning the Manner and Circumstances of this future Meeting of Ministers and the People that have been under their Care, before the Tribunal of Christ at the Day of Judgment, I now proceed,