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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.
Again, the mutual Concerns of Ministers and their People have a direct Relation to the Concerns of the Day of Judgment, as the Business of Ministers with their People is to promote the eternal Salvation of the Souls of Men, and their Escape from eternal Damnation; and the Day of Judgment is the Day appointed for that End, openly to decide and settle Men's eternal State, to fix some in a State of eternal Salvation, and to bring their Salvation to its utmost Consummation, and to fix others in a State of everlasting Damnation and most perfect Misery. The mutual Concerns of Ministers and People have a most direct Relation to the Day of Judgment, as the very Design of the Work of the Ministry is the People's Preparation for that Day: Ministers are sent to warn them of the Approach of that Day, to forewarn them of the dreadful Sentence then to be pronounced on the Wicked, and declare to them ⟨p. 18⟩the blessed Sentence then to be pronounced on the Righteous, and to use Means with them that they may escape the Wrath which is then to come on the ungodly, and obtain the Reward then to be bestowed on the Saints.
And as the mutual Concerns of Ministers and their People have so near and direct a Relation to that Day, 'tis especially fit that those Concerns should be brought into that Day, and there settled and issued; and that in Order to this, Ministers and their People should meet and appear together before the great Judge at that Day.
APPLICATION.