Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection
GEN MSS 151
Container Description Date
b. 4, f. 250 ECCL. 9:10: "Persons ought to do what they can for their salvation" (p. 3)
Originally stitched together with sermon ECCL. 9:10: "Whatever persons
look upon..."
1733 Dec
b. 4, f. 251 ECCL. 9:10: "Whatever persons look upon needful to be done for their own
salvation and intend to do at all they should do now" (p. 1)
Originally stitched together with sermon ECCL. 9:10: "Persons ought to do..."
as a continuation of it
1733/4 Jan
ECCL. 9:10: "I. What [men] must do. Whatsoever thy hand finds to do.
Everything that needs to be done in order to their salvation and in order to
their being prepared for death" (p. 1)
Preached to Stockbridge Indians and Mohawks
See: Box 13, folder 991
1751 Dec
b. 4, f. 252 ECCL. 9:12: "Death commonly comes upon ungodly men at an evil time or at a
time that is peculiarly inconvenient for them" (p. 3)
Preached to Stockbridge Indians
1744/5, 1752
b. 4, f. 253 ECCL. 11:2: "We ought to prepare for whatever changes may come to pass in
the world" (p. 3)
"After an earthquake that was Dec 7 at about 11 of clock at night"
1737 Dec 11
b. 4, f. 254 ECCL. 11:9-10: "When young people will follow their own youthful disposition
and indulge themselves in vain mirth or pleasure, God will surely bring 'em
into judgment for those things and they will surely end in sorrow" (p. 2)
1746/7, 1755
b. 4, f. 255 ECCL. 12:1: "The time of youth is the best time to be improved to religious
purposes" (p. 4)
n.d.
ECCL. 12:1: "By remembering [our Creator] is meant that they should think
much of him and that they should seek him and should give him that respect
which is proper to give to him that made them" (p. 1)
Preached at Stockbridge
See: Box 13, folder 992
1750/1 Feb
b. 4, f. 256 ECCL. 12:7: "That when a man dies his soul goes to God who gave it" (p. 2) n.d.
b. 4, f. 257 CANT. 1:3: "That Christ Jesus is a person transcendently excellent and
desirable" (p. 3)
n.d.
CANT. 1:3: "That Jesus Christ is a person transcendently excellent and
lovely" "Our Lord Jesus Christ is a most lovely person" (p. 2)
"At Boston"
See: Box 13, folder 993
1733 Jun
b. 4, f. 258 CANT. 2:3: "The true believer hath rest in Christ" (p. 3) 1733 May
b. 4, f. 259 CANT. 2:3: "Prop. I. There is this dierence between Jesus Christ and all
others that men are wont to trust in for salvation, that he is as a fruitful tree
and they are barren ones" (p. 1)
1746 Apr
b. 4, f. 260 CANT. 2:16: "They that can say of Christ, 'My beloved is mine and I am his'
have great reason humbly to glory in such a privilege" (p. 1)
1747/8 Feb
SERMONS (continued)
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