Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection
GEN MSS 151
Container Description Date
b. 6, f. 480 MATT. 13:47-50: "Obs. 8. God will hereafter deal with the righteous as men
are wont to treat that which they prize as the portion they live upon" (p. 1)
"Obs. 9. God will hereafter cast away any unsound professors" (p. 17)
1746 Jun
b. 6, f. 481 MATT. 13:47-50: "Obs. 10. God makes use of the ministry of angels in aairs
relating to the eternal state of mankind" (p. 1)
1746 Jun
b. 6, f. 482 MATT. 13:47-50: "Obs. 11. Wicked men will hereafter be cast into a furnace of
fire"
1746 Jul
b. 6, f. 483 MATT. 13:47-50: "Obs. 12. In the misery of the damned there will be a mixture
of sorrow and rage" (p. 1)
1746 Jul
MATT. 13:47-50: "So none ought to come into the Christian church but good
men. But because ministers can't know men's hearts every sort will come in,
good and bad. As there will be some bad fish in the net, so there will be some
bad men in the kingdom of Christ" (p. 2)
Preached to Stockbridge Indians
See: Box 13, folder 1037
1750 Jan
b. 6, f. 484 MATT. 14:12: "When anyone is taken away by death that has been eminent
in the work of the gospel ministry, tis suitable that such as are bereaved
thereby should go and spread their sorrows before Jesus" (p. 4)
1740, 1741
b. 6, f. 485 MATT. 15:26: "There is a great dierence between converted and
unconverted men" (p. 3)
n.d.
b. 7, f. 486 MATT. 16:15: "It concerns all that live under the gospel to be determined in
their own minds who that Jesus was about whom there was so much ado
among the Jews in the days of Pontius Pilate" (p. 1)
1748/9, 1756
b. 7, f. 487 MATT. 16:17: "That there is such a thing as a spiritual and divine light,
immediately imparted to the soul by God, of a dierent nature from any that
is obtained by natural means" (p. 4)
Published as Divine and Supernatural Light
1733 Aug
b. 7, f. 488 MATT. 16:18: "Prop. 1. Shew how the church of Christ is built upon a rock.
II. How that therefore the gates of hell never have and never will prevail
against it" (p. 3)
"Fast occasioned by the rebellion"
1745/6 Mar 13
b. 7, f. 489 MATT. 16:21-23: "It was a thing exceeding oensive to Christ to hear said
anything against those great suerings which he came into the world to
undergo" (p. 4)
n.d.
b. 7, f. 490 MATT. 16:24: "We can't be some of Christ's people unless we deny ourselves
and in many things go contrary to our natural inclination" (p. 1)
Preached to Stockbridge Indians and Mohawks
1752 Jan
MATT. 16:26: "That the salvation of the soul is a thing of vastly more worth
and importance than the whole world" (p. 3), two sermons
See: Box 13, folders 1038-1039
n.d.
b. 7, f. 491 MATT. 16:26: "1. The whole world is not a sucient price to receive to make
up for the loss of the soul. 2. When once the soul is lost the whole world
would not be a sucient price to give to recover it" (p. 5)
1734 Oct
SERMONS (continued)
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