“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

Reverend Lemuel Haynes in the Pulpit

(Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Bequest of Lucy Truman Aldrich)

© 2009 by Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Published by

Reformation Heritage Books

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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

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

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

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