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    May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes
    May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes
    May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes
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    May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes

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    Through both the biographical essay and the selections from Lemuel Haynes’s writings, readers are sure to perceive an Edwardsian sense of spirituality that ever lived in view of eternity. Well acquainted with difficulties, suffering, and death, Haynes’s ministry was infused with the unfailing hope of heaven.

    Table of Contents: The Life and Piety of Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)
    The Gospel and Slave-Keeping
    The Necessity of Regeneration
    The Nature of Regeneration
    A Brief Sketch of a Tour into the State of Vermont
    The Character of a Spiritual Watchmen
    Meeting with God and Our people on the Day of Judgment
    How Eternity Affects Daily Ministry
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    Reminders When a Faithful Minister Is Taken Away
    Ministers and Their Families before the Bar of Christ
    Government and Religion Stand Together
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    True Greatness
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    Confiding in God’s Government and the Use of Means
    Expect to Die Soon
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    To Timothy Mather Cooley
    Love without Dissimulation
    The Gospel Ministry and Politics
    To Deacon Elihu Atkins
    Traveling into Another World
    Suffering and Glory
    To Deacon Elihu Atkins
    Make Haste to the Lord
    Externally Marked for Christ
    In the Hands of God
    Christ Is My All
    Series Description

    Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality . The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed Profiles in Reformed Spirituality tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects’ contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReformation Heritage Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2009
    ISBN9781601783486
    May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes

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      May We Meet in the Heavenly World - Reformation Heritage Books

      May We Meet in the Heavenly World

      May We Meet in the Heavenly World:

      The Piety of Lemuel Haynes

      Introduced and edited by

      Thabiti M. Anyabwile

      Reformation Heritage Books

      Grand Rapids, Michigan

      May We Meet in the Heavenly World

      © 2009 by Thabiti M. Anyabwile

      Published by

      Reformation Heritage Books

      2965 Leonard St. NE

      Grand Rapids, MI 49525

      616-977-0599 / Fax: 616-285-3246

      e-mail: [email protected]

      website: www.heritagebooks.org

      ISBN 978-1-60178-348-6 (epub)

      ——————————

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Haynes, Lemuel, 1753-1833.

      May we meet in the heavenly world : the piety of Lemuel Haynes /

      introduced and edited by Thabiti M. Anyabwile.

      p. cm. — (Profiles in reformed spirituality)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-1-60178-065-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Haynes, Lemuel, 1753-1833. 2. Theology. 3. Haynes, Lemuel,

      1753-1833—Correspondence. 4. African American clergy. 5.

      Calvinists—United States. 6. Puritans—United States. I. Anyabwile,

      Thabiti M., 1970- II. Title.

      BX7260.H315A25 2009

      230’.58092—dc22

      2009018604

      ——————————

      For additional Reformed literature, request a free book list from Reformation Heritage Books at the above address.

      To

      my daughters, Afiya and Eden

      my son, Titus:

      Eternity is written in your hearts.

      And to

      J. R. and Chantha Scott:

      Live for eternity.

      PROFILES IN REFORMED SPIRITUALITY

      series editors—Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin

      Michael Haykin, A Consuming Fire: The Piety of Alexander Whyte of Free St. George’s

      Michael Haykin, A Sweet Flame: Piety in the Letters of Jonathan Edwards

      Michael Haykin and Steve Weaver, Devoted to the Service of the Temple: Piety, Persecution, and Ministry in the Writings of Hercules Collins

      Michael Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker, Christ Is All: The Piety of Horatius Bonar

      J. Stephen Yuille, Trading and Thriving in Godliness: The Piety of George Swinnock

      Joel R. Beeke, The Soul of Life: The Piety of John Calvin

      Thabiti Anyabwile, May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes

      Joel R. Beeke and Mark Jones, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin

      Matthew Vogan, The King in His Beauty: The Piety of Samuel Rutherford

      James M. Garretson, A Scribe Well-Trained: Archibald Alexander and the Life of Piety

      Roger D. Duke and Phil A Newton, Venture All for God: Piety in the Writings of John Bunyan

      Adam Embry, An Honest, Well Experienced Heart: The Piety of John Flavel

      Table of Contents

      Profiles in Reformed Spirituality

      Foreword

      Acknowledgments

      The Life and Piety of Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833)

      1. The Gospel and Slave-Keeping

      2. The Necessity of Regeneration

      3. The Nature of Regeneration

      4. A Brief Sketch of a Tour into the State of Vermont

      5. The Character of a Spiritual Watchman

      6. Meeting with God and Our People on the Day of Judgment

      7. How Eternity Affects Daily Ministry

      8. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      9. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      10. Reminders When a Faithful Minister Is Taken Away

      11. Ministers and Their Families before the Bar of Christ

      12. Government and Religion Stand Together

      13. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      14. True Greatness

      15. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      16. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      17. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      18. Confiding in God’s Government and the Use of Means

      19. Expect to Die Soon

      20. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      21. To Timothy Mather Cooley

      22. Love without Dissimulation

      23. The Gospel Ministry and Politics

      24. To Deacon Elihu Atkins

      25. Traveling into Another World

      26. Suffering and Glory

      27. To Deacon Elihu Atkins

      28. Make Haste to the Lord

      29. Externally Marked for Christ

      30. In the Hands of God

      31. Christ Is My All

      Reading Haynes

      Profiles in Reformed Spirituality

      Charles Dickens’s famous line in A Tale of Two Cities—It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—seems well suited to western evangelicalism since the 1960s. On the one hand, these decades have seen much for which to praise God and to rejoice. In His goodness and grace, for instance, Reformed truth is no longer a house under siege. Growing numbers identify themselves theologically with what we hold to be biblical truth, namely, Reformed theology and piety. And yet, as an increasing number of Reformed authors have noted, there are many sectors of the surrounding western evangelicalism that are characterized by great shallowness and a trivialization of the weighty things of God. So much of evangelical worship seems barren. And when it comes to spirituality, there is little evidence of the riches of our heritage as Reformed evangelicals.

      As it was at the time of the Reformation, when the watchword was ad fontes—back to the sources—so it is now: The way forward is backward. We need to go back to the spiritual heritage of Reformed evangelicalism to find the pathway forward. We cannot live in the past; to attempt to do so would be antiquarianism. But our Reformed forebearers in the faith can teach us much about Christianity, its doctrines, its passions, and its fruit.

      And they can serve as our role models. As R. C. Sproul has noted of such giants as Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards: These men all were conquered, overwhelmed, and spiritually intoxicated by their vision of the holiness of God. Their minds and imaginations were captured by the majesty of God the Father. Each of them possessed a profound affection for the sweetness and excellence of Christ. There was in each of them a singular and unswerving loyalty to Christ that spoke of a citizenship in heaven that was always more precious to them than the applause of men.1

      To be sure, we would not dream of placing these men and their writings alongside the Word of God. John Jewel (1522–1571), the Anglican apologist, once stated: What say we of the fathers, Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Cyprian?… They were learned men, and learned fathers; the instruments of the mercy of God, and vessels full of grace. We despise them not, we read them, we reverence them, and give thanks unto God for them. Yet…we may not make them the foundation and warrant of our conscience: we may not put our trust in them. Our trust is in the name of the Lord.2

      Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality. The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects’ contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight.

      —Joel R. Beeke

      Michael A. G. Haykin

      1. R. C. Sproul, An Invaluable Heritage, Tabletalk 23, no. 10 (October 1999): 5–6.

      2. Cited in Barrington R. White, Why Bother with History? Baptist History and Heritage 4, no. 2 (July 1969): 85.

      Foreword

      Years ago I found a friend and hero in Lemuel Haynes. Being Reformed has at times been lonely. When I first began to embrace the biblical and historical theology of the Reformation, I looked and listened around and found no one who looked and sounded like me. Admittedly, this was before the internet boom and the on-demand access to information both contemporary and historical. Nevertheless, the heroes of the Reformation always came up as white European and American. While this is no reason to accept or reject truth, it does cause one to pause and contemplate the conspicuous absence of non-white voices.

      Not seeing or hearing overtly Reformed voices within African-American history did cause me to wonder why. If these truths are so rich, biblical, and historical, why did not Christianity within the African-American tradition express them? The absence of voices and faces recognizably like mine made me wonder if God had skipped previous generations and decided to make the glories of the Reformation known to African-Americans only in the latter half of the twentieth century. While this would be unlike God, it was not beyond the

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