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Authors: Jonathan Edwards, Harry S. Stout (Editor), John E. Smith (Editor), Kenneth P. Minkema
ISBN-13: 9780300098389, ISBN-10: 0300098383
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Jonathan Edwards

Book Synopsis

Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America's greatest theologian and philosopher.

	Editors' Introduction
	Chronology of Edwards' Life
	Further Reading
	The Spider Letter	1
	Of Being	9
	Beauty of the World	14
	Images of Divine Things	16
	The Mind	22
	Miscellanies	35
	Notes on the Apocalypse	49
	A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God	57
	Sermons
	Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	89
	A Divine and Supernatural Light	105
	A History of the Work of Redemption (Sermon I)	124
	A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections	137
	The Bad Book Case	172
	An Humble Inquiry	179
	Freedom of the Will	192
	Original Sin	223
	The Nature of True Virtue	244
	Personal Writings
	Diary	266
	Resolution	274
	Apostrophe to Sarah Pierpont	281
	Personal Narrative	281
	Receipt for Slave Venus	296
	Letters
	To Timothy Edwards, March 1, 1721	298
	To George Whitefield, February 12, 1739/40	300
	To Moses Lyman, May 10, 1742	302
	To Joseph Bellamy, January 15, 1746/47	304
	To Sarah Pierpont Edwards, June 22, 1748	306
	To Thomas Foxcroft, May 24, 1749	307
	To Esther Edwards Burr, March 28, 1733	311
	To Thomas Prince, May 10, 1754	314
	To the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, October 19, 1757	321
	Index	327