This text presents manuscript sermons from a little-known period in Edwards's life - the years between the completion of his Masters degree at Yale College and the death of Solomon Stoddard, his grandfather and predecessor at Northampton, Massachusetts.[...]
David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a colonial American missionary to Native Americans made famous when Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) posthumously edited his journal and other writings into a popular biographical narrative. Having spent time at Yale University, Brainerd entered the ministry in 1742 and de[...]