HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE LIBRARY OF

MRS. ELLEN HAVEN ROSS
JUNE 28, 1938

D

OF

JONATHAN EDWARDS

AND

DAVID BRAINERD.

BOSTON:

HILLIARD, GRAY, AND CO.

LONDON:

RICHARD JAMES KENNETT.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837,

by JARED SPARKS,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY

FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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CONTENTS.

LIFE OF JONATHAN EDWARDS,

BY SAMUEL MILLER.

CHAPTER I.

His Birth. - His elementary Education. - His

collegiate Course. - His early Piety.

CHAPTER II.

His License to preach the Gospel. - His tem-

porary Residence in the City of New York.

- His Tutorship in Yale College. - The

further Developement of his Talents and Pi-

ety.

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CHAPTER III.

His Settlement as a Pastor at Northampton.

Ministerial Habits. - Marriage. - His

first Publication. - Ministerial Success.-

Second and third Publications. - His Eu-

ropean Correspondence.

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CHAPTER IV.

The Disorders which attended the Revival of

Religion. -The Treatise on Religious Affec-

tions. - Memoirs of Brainerd.- - European

Correspondence continued.

CHAPTER V.

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Origin and History of his Troubles at North-

ampton.-Publication of his Work on Church

Communion. - Dismission from his Pastoral

Charge. - Invitation to settle at Stockbridge. 102

CHAPTER VI.

His Removal to Stockbridge. - Difficulties and

Trials there. - Indefatigable Labors. - New

and important Publications. - His Election

to the Presidency of New Jersey College.

CHAPTER VII.

His Removal to Princeton. — Letter to the

Board of Trustees. - Inauguration. - Sick-

ness and Death. - His Epitaph. - His

Family.

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