Jonathan Edwards

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Edwards' Resolutions
      The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards (1722-1723) Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God's help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ's sake. Remember to read over these Resolutions once a week. 1. Resolved, that I will d ...read

Edwards' "Personal Narrative"
      "Personal Narrative" Jonathan Edwards' own account of his early years and testimony to his own saving faith in Christ. I had a variety of concerns and exercises about my soul from my childhood; but had two more remarkable seasons of awakening, before I met with that change by which I was brought to those new dispositions, and that new se ...read

Few There Be That Find It
      Matthew 7:14 Few there be that find it. Not dated. From Grosart's 'Unpublished Writings.' It will be observed from the facsimile that [this] Sketch of a Sermon is written on the leaf of a letter. Very many of Edwards's MSS. are thus written on all manner of kinds and scraps of paper. Doc[trine.] 'Tis a hard thing to find the right ...read

God Glorified in Man's Dependence
       I COR. 1:29, 30, 31 That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord THOSE Christians to whom the apostle directed this epistle, dwelt in a p ...read

God Makes Men Sensible of Their Misery Before He Reveals His Mercy and Love
       God Makes Men Sensible Of Their Misery Before He Reveals His Mercy And Love Not dated. Three sermons. Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. Subject: That 'tis God's manner to make men sensible of their misery and unworthines ...read

God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men
      God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men ROMANS 9:18. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. THE apostle, in the beginning of this chapter, expresses his great concern and sorrow of heart for the nation of the Jews, who were rejected of God. This leads him to observe the difference which God ma ...read

God’s Awful Judgment In The Breaking And Withering Of The Strong Rods of a Community
       God's Awful Judgment In The Breaking And Withering Of The Strong Rods Of A Community Dated June 26, 1748 upon the death of Col. John Stoddard Ezekiel 19:12 Her strong rods were broken and withered. Preached at Northampton on the Lord's day, June 26, 1748, on the death of the Honorable John Stoddard, Esq. often a member of his Maj ...read

Hope And Comfort Usually Follow Genuine Humiliation And Repentance
       Hope And Comfort Usually Follow Genuine Humiliation And Repentance Dated September, 1737 Hosea 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. In the context, the church o ...read

Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer
      Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer JOB 27:10 Will he always call upon God? CONCERNING these words, I would observe, 1. Who it is that is here spoken of, viz. the hypocrite; as you may see, If you take the two preceding verses with the verse of the text. "For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God t ...read

Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever
       Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever Dated April, 1738. Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Subject: Jesus Christ is the same now that he ever has been and ever will be. The exhortation which the apostle gives the Christian Hebrews in the verse preceding this is to remember and follow t ...read

Justification by Faith Alone
       Justification By Faith Alone Dated November, 1734 - Prepared from 2 Sermons Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Subject: We are justified only by faith in Christ, and not by any manner of goodness of our own. THE following things may be ...read

Man's Natural Blindness In Things Of Religion
      Dated February 1739/1740. Three sermons Psalm 94:8-11 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? The Lord knoweth the t ...read

Many Mansions
       Many Mansions Dated December 25, 1737. The Sabbath after the seating of the New Meeting House. John 14:2 In My Father's house are many mansions. IN these words may be observed two things, 1. The thing described, viz. Christ's Father's house. Christ spoke to his disciples in the foregoing chapter as one that was about to leave ...read

Men Naturally Are God’s Enemies
       Men Naturally Are God's Enemies Dated August, 1736. Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son. Subject: Natural men are God's enemies. THE apostle, from the beginning of the epistle, to the beginning of this chapter, had insisted on the doctrine of justification by faith alone. ...read

Natural Men in a Dreadful Condition
       Natural Men In A Dreadful Condition Dated February, 1753. Preached to the Stockbridge Indians Acts 16:29, 30 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs what must I do to be saved? WE have here and in the context and account of the conversion ...read

Pardon for the Greatest of Sinners
       PSALM 25:11 For thy name's sale, O Lord, pardon my iniquity; for it is great. IT is evident by some passages in this psalm, that when it was penned, it was a time of affliction and danger with David. This appears particularly by the 15th and following verses: "Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net ...read

Praise, One Of The Chief Employments Of Heaven
       Praise, One Of The Chief Employments Of Heaven THANKSGIVING SERMON, Nov. 7, 1734 Revelation 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. We may observe in these words (1.) What it was that John heard, viz. the voice ...read

Pressing into the Kingdom of God
       Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. In these words two things may be observed: First, Wherein the work and office of John the Baptist consisted, viz. in preaching the kingdom of God, to prepare the way for its introduction to succeed the law and t ...read

Ruth’s Resolutions
       Ruth's Resolution Dated April 1735 Ruth 1:16 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Subject: When those that we have formerly been conversant with, are turning to ...read