JONATHAN EDWARDS' WORKS


Accounts:
Edwards' Testimony | Diary and Journals
Revival Accounts | Famous Resolutions

The Memoirs of Jonathan Edwards, Chapters 1 to 10. | Chapters 16 to 25.


Main Theological Works:


A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God ,
On the Will, The famous work that concludes that we really do not have freedom of will.
A History of Redemption, Containing the Outlines of a Body of Divinity, Including a View of Church History, In a Method Entirely New. 1757.
Grace, Distinguishing between Common and Saving Grace.
A Treaties Concerning Religious Affections,
Miscellaneous Observations On Important Theological Subjects. Intorcuction and Index.
Observations on The Facts and Evidences of Christianity, and Objections of the Infidels. Part I. off Misc. Observations.
Observations Concerning the Mysteries of Scripture. Part II. of Misc. Observations.
Trinity, Unpublished Lecture on the.
Observations Concerning the Divinity of Christ and the Doctrine of the Trinity. Part III. of Misc. Observations.
A Dissertation Concerning The Nature of True Virture.
A Dissertation Concerning The End for which God Created the World.
Christian Cautions, Or the Necessity of Self-Examination.
Directions for Judging of Person's Experiences, Short work.
A Humble Attempt to Promote the Agreement and Union of God's People Throughout the World in Extraordinary Prayer For a Revival Of Religion And The Advancement Of God's Kingdom On Earth, According To Scriptural Promises And Prophecies Of The Last Time.
The Qualifications Requisite To A Complete Standing And Full Communion .
Types of the Messiah, Unedited but useful.

Science

Of Atoms | Of Insects. | Of Light Rays. | Of the Rainbow. | The Beauty of the World. | The Spider Letter. | The Wisdom of the World. | The Soul. | On The Mind, Philosophical work.

Miscellaneous


94 Sermons

21 Pastoral Sermons
A Warning To Professors
(Or the great guilt of those who attend on the ordinances of divine worship, and yet allow themselves in any known wickedness) - Ezekiel 23:37, 38, 39 - That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery...
The Pure In Heart Blessed - Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
The Peace Which Christ Gives His True Followers - John 14:27 - Peace I leave with you, my peace give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
We Have Peace With God - Romans 5:1 - ... we have peace with God.
Dishonesty (or the sin of theft and of injustice) - Exodus 20:15 - Thou shalt not steal.
The Portion of the Righteous - Romans 2:10 - But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good.
Pressing into the Kingdom of God - Luke 26:16 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer - Job 37:10 - Will he always call upon God?
Temptation and Deliverance (or Joseph's great temptation and gracious deliverance) - Genesis 39:12 - And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Hope And Comfort Usually Follow Genuine Humiliation And Repentance - 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.
The Unreasonableness Of Indetermination In Religion - 1 Kings 18:21 - And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
The Preciousness Of Time And The Importance Of Redeeming It - Ephesians 5:16 - Redeeming the time.
Praise, One Of The Chief Employments Of Heaven - 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. land.
Christian Cautions (Or the necessity of self-examination) - Psalms 139:23, 24 - Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting..
The Christian Pilgrim (Or the true Christian's life a journey toward heaven) - Hebrews 11:13, 14 - And confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country.
Christian Charity (Or the duty of charity to the poor, explained and enforced) - Deuteronomy 15:7-11 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart...
Procrastination (Or the sin and folly of depending on future time) - Proverbs 27:1 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
God The Best Portion Of The Christian - Psalm 73:25 - Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.
Safety, Fulness, and Sweet Refreshment, to be Found in Christ - Isaiah 32:2 - And a man shall be an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shaddow of a great rock in a weary land.
 Christian Knowledge - Hebrews 5:12 - For when the time you ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which is the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.


28 Doctrinal Sermons

Five Discourses on Important Subjects, Nearly Concerning the Great Affair of the Soul's Eternal Salvation

CHIEFLY AT THE TIME OF THE LATE WONDERFUL POURING OUT OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD THERE

Deuteronomy 4:9




Ruth 1:16

Romans 3:19 - That every mouth may be stopped.

5. The Excellency of Jesus Christ Revelation 5:5-6
23 Additional Doctrinal Sermons
Christians A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation, A Peculiar People - 1 Peter 2:9
The Manner in Which the Salvation of the Soul is to be Sought - Genesis 6:22
Pardon for the Greatest of Sinners - Psalm 25:1
Few There Be That Find It- Matthew 7:14 - Few there be that find it.
The Warnings of Scripture Are in the Best Manner Adapted to the Awakening and Conversion Of Sinners - Luke 16:31
Pressing into the Kingdom of God - Luke 26:16
Men Naturally Are God's Enemies - Romans 5:10
The Sole Consideration, That God Is God, Sufficient To Still All Objections To His Sovereignty - Psalm 46:10 - Be still, and know that I am God.
Unbelievers Contemn The Glory And Excellency Of Christ - Acts 4:11
The Folly Of Looking Back In Fleeing Out Of Sodom - Luke 17:32 - Remember Lot's wife
Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer - Job 37:10
Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever - Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Christ Exalted (Or JESUS CHRIST GLORIOUSLY EXALTED ABOVE ALL EVIL IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION) - 1 Corinthians 15:25, 26
The Scripture Is The Word Of God - 2 Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God.
The Character Of Paul An Example To Christians - Philippians 3:17
The Wisdom of God, Displayed in the Way of Salvation - Ephesians 3:10
The Perpetuity And Change Of The Sabbath - 1 Corinthians 16:1, 2
Safety, Fulness, and Sweet Refreshment, to be Found in Christ - Isaiah 32:2
God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men - Romans 9:18.
Man's Natural Blindness In Things Of Religion Psalm 94:8-113 Sermons
Christ's Agony - Luke 22:44
God Makes Men Sensible of Their Misery Before He Reveals His Mercy and Love - Hosea 5:15

13 Sermons for Special Occasions
God Glorified in Man's Dependence - 1 Corinthians 1:29-31-- Read the Foreword or Advertisement from T. Prince and W. Cooper August 17, 1731.
The Most High a Prayer Hearing God - Psalm 65:2 -- January 1736.
The Nature and End of Excommunication - 1 Corinthians 5:11 -- June, 1749.
The Sorrows of the Bereaved Spread Before Jesus- Matthew 14:12 -- September 2, 1741.
The True Excellency Of A Gospel Minister - John 5:35 -- August 30, 1744.
The Church's Marriage To Her Sons, And To Her God - Isaiah 62:4, 5 -- September 19, 1746.

Christ the Example of Ministers - John 13:15, 16 -- June 28, 1749

God's Awful Judgment In The Breaking And Withering Of The Strong Rods of a Community - Ezekiel 19:12 -- June 19, 1748.
A Divine and Supernatural Light - Matthew 16:17 -- August 1733.
Many Mansions - John 14:2 -- December 25, 1737.
True Grace Distinguished From the Experience of Devils - James 2:19 -- September 28, 1752.
True Saints, When Absent From the Body, Are Present With the Lord - 2 Corinthians 5:8
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

[Preached on the day of the funeral of the Rev. Mr. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honorable Society in Scotland for the propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey; who died at Northampton in New England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th year of his age, and was interred on the 12th following.]
A Farewell Sermon - 2 Corinthians 1:14 - As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

[Preached on his last day as Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. This is one of Edwards rare "personal" sermons. He pours his heart out to the flock he had led for over 20 years. See also the Preface to the Sermon.]


15 Sermons of Warning & Judgment

The Final Judgment - Acts 17:31 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God- Deuteronomy 32:35 - Their foot shall slide in due time.
The Vain Self Flatteries of the Sinner - Psalm 36:2 - For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable - Ezekiel 22:14 - Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord save spoken it, and will do it.
The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners - Romans 3:19 - ...That every mouth may be stopped..
Wicked Men Useful in Their Destruction Only - Ezekiel 15:2-4 - Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree? Or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? Or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; The fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burnt: Is it meet for any work?
The End of the Wicked Contemplated by the Righteous - Revelation 18:20 - Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Wicked Men of the Past are Still in Hell - 1 Peter 3:19, 20 - By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison, etc... .
The Portion of the Wicked - Romans 2:8, 9 - But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile.
When the Wicked Shall Have Filled Up the Measure of Their Sin, Wrath Will Come Upon Them to the Uttermost - 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - To fill up their sins alway; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Wicked Med Inconsistent With Themselves - Matthew 11:16-19. - But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented...
Sinners in Zion Tenderly Warned - Isaiah 33:14 - The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
The Eternity of Hells Torments - Matthew 25:46 - These shall go away into everlasting punishment.
Sinners Delay Concerns the Soul - Acts 24:25 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Natural Men in a Dreadful Condition - 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?
16 Sermons on Charity and It's FruitsAn Exposition of I Corinthians Chapter 13

These 16 sermons were preached to the congregation in Northampton in 1738. Intending them to be published after they were delivered, Edwards prepared them completely by hand. However, they were never published until 1851 when Tyrone Edwards edited the original manuscripts and titled them "CHARITY AND ITS FRUITS... Christian love manifested in the heart and life"


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