Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection GEN MSS 151   Container Description Date b. 1, f. 11 GEN. 24:58: "I would in the first place shew...that Rebekah in this aair is a type of the church and the believing soul in its mystical marriage with Christ" (p. 1) 1742 Jul b. 1, f. 12 GEN. 27:39: "Those that God hates he is notwithstanding often times willing to give em a plenty of these earthly things and the choicest of them" (p. 4) 1741 Apr b. 1, f. 13 GEN. 28:12: "The ladder which God has set on the earth for men to ascend to happiness reaches even unto heaven" (p. 6) 1736 Mar GEN. 32:24-32: "Jesus Christ remembers a people in the time of their troubles and diculties and will come to em and take care of em" (p. 1) Preached to Stockbridge Indians See: Box 13, folder 936 1754 May b. 1, f. 14 GEN. 32:24-26: "Tis frequently God's manner when persons are seeking the blessing of him to exercise them with trials of their resolution and steadfastness in seeking before he bestows it upon them" (p. 7) 1735 Aug b. 1, f. 15 GEN. 32:26-29: "The way to obtain the blessing of God is not to let God go except he bless us" (p. 5) n.d. b. 1, f. 16 GEN. 39:12: "Tis our duty not only to avoid those things that are themselves sinful, but also, as far as may be, those things that lead and expose to sin" (p. 6) 1738, 1757 b. 1, f. 17 GEN. 43:3: "...Joseph was a remarkable type of Christ" (p. 1) 1741/2 Feb b. 1, f. 18 EX. 8:15: "Observe particularly how the case was with Pharoah with regard to that misimprovement of respite from God's judgments which we read of in the text" (p. 1) "Public fast for rain" 1749 Jun 15 b. 1, f. 19 EX. 8:18: "Satan's power is a limited power" (p. 2) 1734 Aug b. 1, f. 20 EX. 9:12-16: "They that will not yield to the power of God's word shall be broken by the power of his hand" (p. 2) 1747 Jul b. 1, f. 21 EX. 9:16: "Some persons are raised up to be in a peculiar manner beyond other sinners the awful monuments of the glory of God's justice and great wrath" (p. 2) 1743 Aug b. 1, f. 22 EX. 10:9: "Then do a people praise God in a becoming manner when all sorts among them are united in it and when they do it with all that they have" (p. 3) Thanksgiving sermon 1741 Nov b. 1, f. 23 EX. 13:18: "When God truly delivers men from spiritual bondage, they go forth prepared both to travel and to fight as soldiers to war," (p. 1) 1743 Apr b. 1, f. 24 EX. 16:20: "For persons to lay up past experiences to live upon them so as to content themselves with them without daily seeking new ones, is the way to have an occasion of those things in them that are very bothersome hurtful and troublesome" (p. 1) 1741 Oct b. 1, f. 25 EX. 16:21: "The heavenly manna is rarely found by those that neglect to gather it till late in the day" (p. 1) 1741 Oct SERMONS (continued)   Page 9 of 125