The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

For a parallel passage in the sermon on Philippians 1:21, see Works, 10, 583–84. When a saint dies, he has no cause at all to grieve because he leaves his friends and relations that he dearly loves, for he doth not properly leave them. For he enjoys them still in Christ; because everything that he loves in them and loves them for,MS: "that they love in them, and love them for." is in Christ in an infinite degree; whether it be nearness of relation, or any perfection and good received, or love to us, or a likeness in dispositions, or whatever is a rational ground of love.