The works of president Edwards [ed. by E. Williams and E. Parsons]., Volume 3

Jonathan Edwards

Books on Demand, 1807 - Religion - 502 pages

Contents

• WORKS: 3
• PREFACE: 5
• THE LIFE AND DIARY OF THE: 73
• From his birth to the time when he began to study for the Ministry: 81
• From his beginning to study till his being examined and licensed: 99
• From his being licensed to preach till he was appointed Mis: 115
• The rise and progress of a remarkable work of grace: 319
• From A D 1745Nov 24 to June 19 1746: 364
• FIRST APPENDIXCONTAINING: 413
• SECOND APPENDIX: 431
• Attestations of divine grace displayed among the Indians: 465
• APPENDIXCONTAINING HIS BRIEF: 469
• II: 471
• V: 494
• Thoughts of a soul under conviction: 508
• A SERMON PREACHED AT THE: 511
• Reflections and Observations: 531

Popular passages

Page 338 - Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ ; what was I, that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

Page 173 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

Page 236 - And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. And behold there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem...

Page 104 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Page 512 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.

Page 512 - Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

Page 257 - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

Page 353 - And how evident did it now appear that they received and felt them, "not as the word of man, but as the word of God!

Page 201 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Page 40 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

About the author

In 1716 Edwards was admitted to Yale at the remarkable age of thirteen. After he graduated in 1722, he spent four years there pursuing theological interests, teaching, and completing his master's degree. In 1727,Edwards complied with his grandfather's request and traveled to Northhampton, Massachusetts to be his assistant in his church. A committed scholar of John Calvin and the early Puritan theologians, as well as of the writings of John Locke and Isaac Newton, Edwards pursued a theology founded on two seemingly contradictory themes---a desire to return to the Calvinist tradition, as well as a desire to include the insights of contemporary Enlightenment philosophy. While Edwards's theological formulations were not completely developed until the 1750s, his lifetime pursuit of these ideas profoundly influenced the Puritan period of religious revival known as the Great Awakening. Though Edwards's provocative theology and sermons occasionally invoked fire and brimstone, as in the famous Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741), his sermons generally moved parishioners to faith through the employment of positive imagery, as in God Glorified in Man's Dependence (1731). In spite of his successes during the Great Awakening, Edwards was ultimately involved in a controversy that led to his dismissal at the Northhampton parish in 1750. Viewed as too progressive by a faction of the church known as the Old Lights, Edwards stepped down after delivering his famous Farewell Sermon (1750), in which he declared that God would ultimately determine whether Edwards had been right or wrong

Bibliographic information

• Title: The works of president Edwards [ed. by E. Williams and E. Parsons]., Volume 3; The works of president Edwards [ed. by E. Williams and E. Parsons], Jonathan Edwards
• Author: Jonathan Edwards
• Editor: Edward Williams
• Publisher: Books on Demand, 1807
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Aug 17, 2006
• ISBN: 0608425338, 9780608425337
• Length: 502 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Denominations