A Farewell Sermon
Publisher: Curiosmith
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis, USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781935626435
Description: Jonathan Edwards was voted out of his congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, on June 22, 1750, because of his belief that the Lord’s Super was not for the unconverted. A Farewell Sermon was preached on July 1, 1750 and addressed of how a pastor cares for his congregation, and how he will meet with them again in heaven at the Judgment when all truth will be known. Jonathan Edwards gives advice and warning to the congregation. He eventually moved to work among the Housatonic Indians at Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Table of contents: title: PREFACE (Page 8.); title: The Apostle Paul’s comforts and supports under the troubles he met with.; title: 1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience. (Page 17.); title: 2. That he had approved himself to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians. (Page 17.); title: 3. The hope he had of seeing the blessed fruit of his labours and sufferings in the ministry, in their happiness and glory, in that great day of accounts. (Page 17.); title: 4. That he had approved himself to his Judge, who would approve and reward his faithfulness in that day. (Page 18.); title: DOCTRINE (Page 19.); title: I. In what manner ministers, and the people which have been under their care, shall meet one another at the day of judgment. (Page 20.); title: 1. They shall not meet at the day merely as all the world must then meet together. (Page 20.); title: (1.) As to a clear actual view, and distinct knowledge and notice, of each other. (Page 20.); title: (2.) They shall meet together, as having special concern one with another in the great transactions of that day. (Page 21.); title: 2. Their meeting at the day of judgment will be very diverse from their meetings one with another in this world. (Page 22.); title: (1.) Now they meet together in a preparatory mutable state, but then in an unchangeable state. (Page 22.); title: (2.) Then they shall meet together in a state of clear, certain, and infallible light. (Page 24.); title: (3.) In this world, ministers and their people often meet together to hear of and wait upon an unseen Lord; but at the judgment, they shall meet in his most immediate and visible presence. (Page 28.); title: (4.) The meeting at the last day, of ministers and the people that have been under their care, will not be attended by anyone with a careless, heedless heart. (Page 29.); title: II. To observe to what purposes they shall then meet. (Page 30.); title: 1. To give an account, before the great Judge, of their behavior one to another, in the relation they bore to each other in this world. (Page 30.); title: 2. That Christ may judge between them, as to any controversies which have subsisted between them in this world. (Page 31.); title: 3. To receive an eternal sentence and retribution from the Judge, in the presence of each other, according to their behavior in the relation they stood in one to another in the present state. (Page 32.); title: III. To give some reasons why we may suppose God has so ordered it. (Page 35.); title: 1. The mutual concerns of ministers and their people are of the greatest importance. (Page 35.); title: 2. The mutual concerns of ministers and their people have a special relation to the main things appertaining to the day of judgment. (Page 36.); title: APPLICATION (Page 38.); title: Address to several sorts of persons. (Page 45.); title: I. To those who are professors of godliness amongst us. (Page 45.)II. To those in a Christless, graceless condition. (Page 47.); title: III. To those who are under some awakenings. (Page 50.); title: IV. To the young people of the congregation. (Page 52.); title: V. To the children of the congregation. (Page 54.); title: Words of advice to all in general. (Page 56.); title: 1. The maintaining of family order. (Page 56.); title: 2. Avoid contention. (Page 57.); title: 3. Watch against the encroachments of error; and particularly Arminianism. (Page 59.); title: 4. Give yourselves much to prayer. (Page 60.); title: 5. Take great care with regard to the settlement of a minister. (Page 61.); title: (1.) That he be a man of thoroughly sound principles, in the scheme of doctrine which he maintains. (Page 61.); title: (2.) Labour to obtain a man who has an established character, as a person of serious religion and fervent piety. (Page 61.)