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Jonathan Edwards died this date, 3/22/1758, at Princeton, New Jersey. He became a powerful preacher, an evangelical theologian, and missionary to the American Indians. His daughter, Jerusha Edwards (one of his eleven children), would perhaps have married David Brainerd had David not died prematurely. Edwards was born 10/5/1703, at East Windsor, Connecticut.
Edwards became a beleiver inoculations, was inoculated for small pox and died from the inoculations.
Posted in Evangelist to World, Jesus Christ, QQQuaint Quality Quotes, worship, tagged 10/9/1747 Northampton, 2/20/1743, 4/20/1718, American Indians, Brainerd born, Colonial area, Connecticut, David Brainerd, Haddam, Journal, Massachusetts, missionary, on this date, passed from this life on February 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
“Selfish religion loves Christ for His benefits, but not for Himself.”
David Brainerd, on this date, 2/20/1743, is said to have written the above in his journal. He was, of course, a Colonial area missionary to our American Indians. Brainerd was born 4/20/1718, at Haddam, Connecticut, and passed from this life, 10/9/1747 at Northampton, Massachusetts.
Posted in QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged assistance of divine grace, David Brainerd, performance of the duties which God has enjoined on January 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
David Brainerd is reported on this date, 1/17/ 1745, to have penned in his journal:
“Oh, how comfortable and sweet it is, to feel the assistance of divine grace in the performance of the duties which God has enjoined on us!”
Brainerd was a Colonial era missionary to the Indians in the American northeast. He was born 4/20/1718 at Haddam, Connecticut and died 10/9/1747 at Northampton, Massachusetts.
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…The sovereignty of God. I could not bear that it should be wholly at God’s pleasure, to save or damn me, just as He would.
– Jonathan Edwards, Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), 27.
…Sundry passages of God’s Word opened to my soul with divine clearness, power, and sweetness, so as to appear exceeding precious…
– Jonathan Edwards, Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), 33.
It is good to wrestle for divine blessings.
– Jonathan Edwards, Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), 43.
It is better to wait upon God with patience than to confidence in anything in this lower world.
– Jonathan Edwards, Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), 87.
After I rode more than two miles [horseback], it came to my mind to dedicate myself to God again; which I did with great solemnity and unspeakable satisfaction.
– Jonathan Edwards, Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), 105.
God was gracious to me, helping me to plead with Him for holiness, and to use the stronger arguments with Him, drawn from the incarnation and sufferings of Christ for this very end, that men might be made holy.
– Jonathan Edwards, Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), 113.
David Brainerd was born this date (4/20/1718) at Haddan Connecticut. He was a missionary to the Stockbridge, Delaware, and Susquehanna Indians. He prayed, worked, and was exposed to bad weather so much that he was dead at 29 – almost appearing to fail. But tradition has it a William Carey went to India, Robert McCheyne to the Jews, Henry Martyn to India, as a result (at least in part) of reading his Journal.
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