Boston 1765 - Life Of Jonathan Edwards Bound With Sermons & Dissertations 1765 For Sale

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Edwards, Jonathan. Three titles printed by S. Kneeland, Boston in 1765, bound together. The second title is "SERMONS ON VARIOUS IMPORTANT SUBJECTS. BEING SOME OF THE REMAINS OF THE LATE REVEREND AND LEARNED MR. JONATHAN EDWARDS, PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE AT NEW JERSEY". The third title is "TWO DISSERTATIONS, I. CONCERNING THE END FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE WORLD. II. THE NATURE OF TRUE VIRTURE. BY THE LATE LEARNED AND PIUS JONATHAN EDWARDS, A.M. PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE IN NEW JERSEY". The first title is "THE LIFE OF THE LATE REVEREND, LEARNED AND PIUS MR. JONATHAN EDWARDS, SOME TIME MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT NORTHHAMPTON, IN NEW ENGLAND, AND THE MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS AT STOCKBRIDGE, AND AFTER THAT PRESIDENT OF NEW-JERSEY COLLEGE. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT PRINCETON, MARCH 22, 1758, IN THE 55TH YEAR OF HIS AGE". There is only a fragnment of the general title page (see last picture) presumably "THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE MR. JONATHAN EDWARDS... TOGETHER WITH A NUMBER OF HIS SERMONS..." published by Samuel Hopkins, the author author of the biography and editor of the sermons. All imprints are Boston: Printed and Sold by S. Kneeland, 1765. 4 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches Original calf with leather over coat repair. [10], 98p.; [8], 279, [1]p; [2], iii, [3], 191 [1]p.. Provenance on rear blank, "the property of Jemima Hall given to me by my father October 18th, 1811 Capt. Stephen Sadler Died October 18th 1811". Captain Stephen Sadler (1723-1811) serving with Col. Whjeelock's Regiment, responded to the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775.

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Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a Christian preacher and theologian. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian,"[3] and one of America's greatest intellectuals.[4] Edwards's theological work is broad in scope, but he was rooted in Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset.[5] Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts.[6][7]

Edwards delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a classic of early American literature, during another revival in 1741, following George Whitefield's tour of the Thirteen Colonies.[8] Edwards is well known for his many books, The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, which served to inspire thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals still read today.[9] Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey (Princeton).[10] He was the grandfather of Aaron Burr,[1] 3rd Vice President of the United States

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