Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection GEN MSS 151   Container Description Date PROV. 19:8: "God in directing of us to seek after holiness only advises us to be friends to our own souls" (p. 1) Preached to Stockbridge Indians See: Box 13, folder 985 1756 Jun b. 3, f. 226 PROV. 23:5: "That earthly riches are of a very fleeting nature" (p. 2) n.d. b. 3, f. 227 PROV. 23:23: "Buy the truth and sell it not" 1742/3 Feb PROV. 24:13-14: "That it would be worth the while to be religious if it were only for the pleasantness of it" (p. 3) See: Box 13, folder 986 n.d. b. 3, f. 228 PROV. 24:13-14: "The directest way that young people can take to spend their youth pleasantly, is to make it the way of virtue and piety" (p. 3) 1734 May b. 3, f. 229 PROV. 24:20: "There is nothing got by ways of sin" (p. 5) "Preached at Springfield" 1736/7 Feb b. 3, f. 230 PROV. 24:20: "I shall not raise a doctrine in any other words but shall insist on the words of the text and shall shew...wherein the candle of the wicked is put out" (pp. 3-4) 1737 Oct b. 3, f. 231 PROV. 26:11: "That wicked men, tho for a while they may seem to forsake their sins, yet if their natures are not changed they will be very liable to return to them again" (p. 4) n.d. b. 3, f. 232 PROV. 27:1: "We ought to behave ourselves every day as though we had not dependence on any other day" (p. 3) Preached to Stockbridge Indians n.d. b. 3, f. 233 PROV. 27:22: "Folly is naturally so rooted and confirmed in men that if God leaves them to themselves, let what will be done with them, they will not learn wisdom" (p. 2) 1733 Nov PROV. 28:1: "Righteousness tends to make a man's heart bold and courageous" (p. 1) Preached to Stockbridge Indians See: Box 13, folder 987 1754 Sep b. 3, f. 234 PROV. 28:2: "Doc. 1. An unsettled state of people's pubic aairs is a token of God's anger against them for their sins" "Doc. 2. The privileges of a community are prolonged and established by the wisdom and righteousness of its members" (p. 4) n.d. b. 3, f. 235 PROV. 28:13: "God stands ready to forgive every sinner upon his heartily confessing and forsaking his sin" (p. 1) Preached to Stockbridge Indians 1752, n.d. PROV. 29:25: "They are safe that trust in God" (p. 2) See: Box 13, folder 988 n.d. b. 3, f. 236 PROV. 30:24-27[28]: "Tis a great point of wisdom in those that have no suciency in themselves, to improve the opportunity God gives them to get supplies elsewhere against a time of need" (p. 4), [focus of sermon is v. 25] SERMONS (continued)   Page 27 of 125