Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection
GEN MSS 151
Container Description Date
b. 12, f. 886 REV. 1:5-6: "Unto him that loved us... and his father." "In speaking from these
words I would 1. Speak of Christ's love to his chosen people here mentioned.
2. [Speak] of those fruits of his love that are here spoken of" (p. 1), "1. "That
the blood of Christ is a real atonement for sin" (p. 9), two sermons
1745 Jul
REV. 1:7: "...this coming of Christ at the day of judgement is what I shall make
the subject of my present discourse" (p. 1)
Preached to Stockbridge Indians and Mohawks
See: Box 14, folder 1140
1750/1, 1752
b. 12, f. 887 REV. 1:17-18: "Tis a solid foundation of comfort to the people of God, that
Christ is one that was dead and is alive and is to die no more" (p. 4)
"at Springfield"
1734-58
b. 12, f. 888 REV. 2:4-5: "When any visible people of God continue long and cold and dead
and declining in the things of religion, there is a danger that God will take
away their religious advantages" (p. 3)
n.d.
b. 12, f. 889 REV. 2:17: "...the subject that I would now handle, viz. that white stone and
new name written in it that no man knows but he that receives it" (p. 1)
1742 Dec
b. 12, f. 890 REV. 2:19: "Tis a very pleasing sight to Jesus Christ, to see his people making
progress in grace and good works and the last to be more than the first" (p.
3)
n.d.
b. 12, f. 891 REV. 3:5: "That he that overcomes in the spiritual warfare, Christ will confess
his name before his Father and before his angels" (p. 4)
n.d.
b. 12, f. 892 REV. 3:5: "Christ will not be ashamed hereafter to own each one of them that
have been his sincere and faithful followers before his Father and before his
angels" (p. 3)
1757, n.d.
b. 12, f. 893 REV. 3:7: "I would shew how Christ is said to have the key of David. 2. How
when he opens no man shutteth. 3. How when he shuts no man opens..." (pp.
1-2)
"Lecture"; "at Boston"; "Sheeld[?]"; "Eliz[abeth] Town"
1741-53
b. 12, f. 894 REV. 3:12: "1. I would shew that those that are, thorough Christians are
properly decyphered by that, that they are they that overcome. 2. I would
speak particularly of these three promises to such...viz. that Christ will write
upon them..." (p. 4)
"Lecture"
1740, 1752
b. 12, f. 895 REV. 3:15: "That a man had better be a heathen than to dier from 'em only in
common light and profession" (p. 2)
n.d.
b. 12, f. 896 REV. 3:20: Nothing else is required of us in order to our having an interest in
Christ, but that we should find it in our hearts to be willing that Christ should
be ours and we his" (p. 5)
1734 Mar
b. 12, f. 897 REV. 3:20: "I would consider and improve the text... in distinct propositions. I.
Christ comes to [the] sinner's door..." (p. 1)
1741 Sept
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