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The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. Illustrated in a sermon
The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. Illustrated in a sermon. : To which is added a farewell sermon; by Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Delivered at Northampton, June 22d, 1750. After the people's public rejection of him as their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church.
Northampton: printed by Daniel Wright & Co for Simeon Butler, 1797
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The people shall know whether their minister has been sincere and faithful, and the minister shall know the state of every one of their people, and to whom the word and ordinances of God have been a savour of life unto life, and to whom a savour of death unto death.
Now in this present state it often happens, that when ministers and people meet together to debate and manage their ecclesiastical affairs, especially in a state of controversy, ⟨p. 104⟩they are ready to judge and censure one another with regard to each others views and designs, and the principles and ends that each is influenced by; and are greatly mistaken in their judgement, and wrong one another in their censures: But at that future meeting, things will be set in a true and perfect light, and the principles and aims that every one has acted from, shall be certainly known; and there will be an end to all errors of this kind, and all unrighteous censures.
(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.