Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection
GEN MSS 151
Container Description Date
b. 1, f. 66 JOSH. 24:15-27: "Prop. I. A visible people of God on some occasions are called
plainly and publicly to renew their covenant with God" (p. 1)
1742 Mar
b. 1, f. 67 JOSH. 24:19: "God as the giver and judge of the law deals with the utmost
strictness" (p. 6)
1736 Jul
b. 1, f. 68 JOSH. 24:21-22: "They that don't take heed to keep their vows where
in they have promised to serve God, what they have said and done in
covenanting with God will be brought as a witness against them to render
'em inexcusable..." (p. 1)
"Quarterly lecture"
1747 Aug
b. 1, f. 69 JUDGES 5:23: "When God remarkably appears in a great work for his
church and against his enemies, it is a most dangerous thing for any of his
professing people to lie still and not to put to [it] a helping hand" (p. 5)
1741 Dec
b. 1, f. 70 JUDGES 13:19-20: "Christ was the antitype of the ancient sacrifices" (p. 1) 1748 Oct
b. 1, f. 71 RUTH 1:16: "When those that we have formerly been conversant with, are
turning to God, and joining themselves to his people, it ought to be our firm
resolution, that we will not leave them" (p. 4)
1735 Apr
b. 1, f. 72 I SAM. 1:27-28: "Tis a reasonable and becoming thing that we should give
those things to God and devote 'em to his service that we receive from him
as the fruit of his goodness" (p. 4)
1732/3, 1753
b. 1, f. 73 I SAM. 2:7: "Tis God's manner first to bring men low before he exalts them
and lifts them up by the manifestation [of] his special mercy and favour to
them" (p. 3)
[1736 Jan-Feb?]
I SAM. 17:45-47: "For men to trust in themselves when they go to war is the
way to be overcome by their enemies" (p. 1)
Preached to Stockbridge Indians "on occasion of the expedition to Cr[own]
Point"
See: Box 13, folder 942
1755 Jul[?]
b. 1, f. 74 I SAM. 28:15: "Saul was a remarkable instance of the awful and doleful
circumstances a man is in when left of God" (p. 3)
1732/3 Feb
b. 1, f. 75 II SAM. 20:19: "When a spirit of strife has been prevailing amongst a visible
people of God, and they have been divided into parties, tis that which a
person may well rejoice in, if he can say he is one, who has been peaceable
and faithful among them" (p. 5)
1737 May
b. 1, f. 76 II SAM. 22:26-27: "That God will deal with all men according to their own
temper and practice" (p. 2)
n.d.
b. 1, f. 77 II SAM. 23:5: "That the covenant of grace is every way so ordered as is
needful in order to its being made firm and sure" (p. 5)
n.d.
b. 1, f. 78 I KI. 8:35-36: "If a people in a time of sore drought acknowledge God and turn
from their sins which procure this judgment and go to God through Christ
by prayer and supplication tis the way for them both to obtain the temporal
blessing they need and also to obtain great spiritual blessings that are far
better" (p. 8)
n.d.
SERMONS (continued)
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