Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection GEN MSS 151   Container Description Date b. 6, f. 460 MATT. 12:41: "Method: I shall consider the case of Neneveh with reference to that which is here spoken of, their repenting at the preaching of Jonah. 2. The case of that generation of Jews as compared... 3. Apply these things to impenitent sinners amongst us" (p. 4) 1747 May b. 6, f. 461 MATT. 12:42: "In discoursing from this text [I] 1. shall observe the more material particulars and circumstances of the aair of the queen of the South here mentioned. 2 Shew [how] gospel sinners are condemned by what she did. 3. Conclude with some agreeable exhortation" (p. 2) 1747 May MATT. 12:42: "It would be worth the while to go a great way to get acquaintance with Jesus Christ" (p. 1) Preached to Stockbridge Indians See: Box 13, folder 1032 1754 Jul b. 6, f. 462 MATT. 13:3-4: "Those that God sends forth to preach the gospel are fitly compared to an husbandman that goes forth to sow his seed" (p. 2) Parable of the sower, Sermon 1 1740, 1756 b. 6, f. 463 MATT. 13:3-4 "I would shew how that there are some kinds of hearers of the word preached whose hearts are like the wayside..." (p. 1) Parable of the sower, Sermon 2 [1740], 1756 b. 6, f. 464 MATT. 13:4: "1. How there are some sorts of men who hear the word preached that are like the path that men travel in. 2. How the devil immediately catches away that which such men hear in the preaching of the word" (p. 1) Preached to Stockbridge Indians and Mohawks 1752 Jan b. 6, f. 465 MATT. 13:5-6: "There are many of the hearers of the word whose hearts are like a rock with a thin covering of earth" (p. 3) Parable of the sower, Sermon 3 1740, 1756 b. 6, f. 466 MATT. 13:5-[6]: "Sudden conversions are very often false" (p. 1) Parable of the sower, Sermon 4, may also have been repreached in May 1756 with others of the series 1740 Nov b. 6, f. 467 MATT. 13:5-6: "That religion that arises only from superficial impressions is wont to wither away for want of root when it comes to be tried by the diculties of religion" (p. 1) [Nov. 1740] Parable of the sower, Sermon 5, may have been repreached in May 1756 with others of the same series b. 6, f. 468 MATT. 13:5-6: "The preaching of the word of God to some men is like sowing seed on a rock where there is but a thin covering of earth" (p. 1) Preached to Stockbridge Indians 1753 Feb b. 6, f. 469 MATT. 13:7: "1. That the hearts of some of the hearers of the word are so carnal and worldly that they appear to be a ground that was never plowed and so is overgrown with thorns..." (p. 2) Parable of the sower, Sermon 6 and last 1740, 1756 SERMONS (continued)   Page 46 of 125