Series I: Writings of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards collection
GEN MSS 151
Container Description Date
b. 1, f. 79 I KI. 8:44-45: "A people of God may be called of God to go forth to war
against their enemies" (p. 3)
"Fast for success in the expedition against Cape Breton April 4, 1745"
1745, 1755
b. 1, f. 80 I KI. 11:9: "When persons depart from God after gracious manifestations that
God has made of himself to them, their sin is exceedingly aggravated and
peculiarly oensive to God" (p. 5)
1737 Aug
b. 1, f. 81 I KI. 18:21: "The unresolvedness of many persons in religion is very
unreasonable" (p. 3)
Lecture, 1734; preached to Stockbridge Indians, 1752
1734, 1752
b. 2, f. 82 II KI. 2:23-24: "God is very angry at the sins of children" (p. 1)
"To the children at a private meeting"
1740/1 Feb
b. 2, f. 83 II KI. 4:18-19: "Children's liableness to sudden death" (p. 2) 1749/50 Feb
b. 2, f. 84 II KI. 7:2: "Some persons are the subjects of such a judgment of God that
though they live to see a glorious plenty after a famine that they may see
others partake of, yet they themselves never have one taste of it" (p. 4)
"Contribution Lecture"
1741 Mar
II KI. 7:3-4: "That a possibility of being saved is much to be preferred to a
certainty of perishing" (p. 3)
See: Box 13, folder 943
n.d.
b. 2, f. 85 II KI. 8:12-13: "Men are naturally very blind with respect to what is in their
own hearts" (p. 1)
1748/9 Feb
b. 2, f. 86 II KI. 20:1-3: "When persons come to look death in the face they stand in
great need of clear evidence of their being at good terms with God" (p. 3)
1753 Aug
b. 2, f. 87 II KI. 23:25: "Tis a very amiable thing when persons that profess religion are
lively and active in religion" (p. 1)
1747, 1754
b. 2, f. 88 I CHR. 15:12-13: "When a people have once suered by any errors they have
committed in their treatment of special privileges and tokens of God's
presence they should beware that they ben't guilty of those errors the
second time" (p. 5)
1740 Dec
b. 2, f. 89 II CHR. 15:1-2: "The way for those that have the presence of God not to lose
it is to take heed of themselves as to these two things, viz. that they don't
forsake him and [that] they still seek him" (p. 1)
"Fast"
1742 Apr
II CHR. 20:6: "God is he that orders all things in a time of war just as he
pleases and all defense and success in war is from him" (p. 1)
"Private fast for our defense from the enemy," preached to Stockbridge
Indians
See: Box 13, folder 944
1755 Mar 5
SERMONS (continued)
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