Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection
GEN MSS 151
Container Description Date
b. 11, f. 807 II TIM. 4:6-8: "Tis comfortable to have a well spent life to think of when one
comes to be in the sensible approaches of death" (p. 2)
1746 Oct
b. 11, f. 808 II TIM. 4:8: "Tis the character of all true saints to love the appearing of Jesus
Christ at the last day" (p. 2)
"May 1752 sermon at Northampton"
1752
TITUS 1:2: "God hath made provision that some Christians should have good
reason that true Christians should hope for eternal life" (p. 1)
Preached to Stockbridge Indians and Mohawks
See: Box 14, folder 1122
1751 Dec
b. 11, f. 809 TITUS 2:14: "One main thing that Christ aimed at in what he did and suered
in the work of our redemption was to save men from sin" (p. 3)
1740 Mar
b. 11, f. 810 TITUS 2:14: "Zeal is an essential virtue of a Christian" (p. 2) 1740 Apr
b. 11, f. 811 TITUS 3:2: "1. Endeavor to explain the nature of the sin of evil speaking. 2.
Speak of the object of it and shew how we are to understand the words
when we are directed to speak evil of no man" (p. 1)
"Quarterly lecture"
1747 May 22
b. 11, f. 812 TITUS 3:5: "That there are none saved by their own righteousness" (p. 3) n.d.
b. 11, f. 813 HEB. 1:3: "Jesus Christ is the shining forth of the Father's glory" (p. 4) 1734 Apr
b. 11, f. 814 HEB. 1:5: "Christ is a person of transcendent worthiness in the sight of
God" (p. 4)
"Lecture"
1736, 1752
b. 11, f. 815 HEB. 2:1: "When we have heard the word of God we ought to give earnest
heed that we don't lose what we have heard" (p. 2)
1733/4 Feb
b. 11, f. 816 HEB. 2:7-8: "All the works and dispensations of God in all parts of the
creation and in all ages of it are such as shew forth the infinite value God has
for and delight he has in his Son" (p. 2)
1743 Mar
b. 11, f. 817 HEB. 2:15: "1. Represent something of the miserable bondage they are that
are without any reasonable support against the fears of death. 2. Speak of
the deliverance that is to be had by an interest in Christ" (p. 2)
1748 Sept
b. 11, f. 818 HEB. 2:16: "Subject. Christ's taking on him the seed of Abraham" (p. 2) 1745 Oct
HEB. 3:7-11: "They that live under the gospel should take care that it ben't
with them as it was with the wicked Israelites of old that God destroyed in
the wilderness" (p. 1)
See: Box 14, folder 1123
n.d.
b. 11, f. 819 HEB. 5:7-9: "My design from these words at this time is to contemplate
things that Christ shed for sinners, viz. tears and blood" (p. 1)
1741 Aug
b. 11, f. 820 HEB. 6:7: "Obs. 1. The means of grace to those that live under the gospel are
like the showers that often descend on the earth," probably four sermons (p.
2)
1746/7 Jan
SERMONS (continued)
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