Brainerd, David; Edwards, Jonathan; Dwight, Sereno Edwards. Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: chiefly taken from his own Diary. New-Haven: Printed and Published by S. Converse, 1822. First Edition. [12552]
Full brown leather with a red leather spine title label, gilt lines & decorations to spine, title label scuffed with some loss, joints very good, binding is scuffed and has some old stains, yet is sturdy and intact, tight, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. 1889 bookplate of the Tyson Library Association, which is based in Ripley Co., Indiana. 1833 & 1888 ink signatures on the ffep. 507 clean pp. with very little foxing; ffep (front blank) torn with 1 inch loss at bottom; 1 inch tear in the margin of p. 35. Very good. Hardcover.
Title continues: By Rev. Jonathan Edwards, of Northampton. Including his Journal, now for the first time incorporated with the rest of his Diary, in a regular Chronological Series. By Sereno Dwight Edwards. This book includes the reprint of A Sermon, preached in Newark, June 12, 1744, at the Ordination of Mr. David Brainerd, A Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania, by Ebenezer Pemberton, A. M., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the City of New-York.
No. 676 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "In twenty-nine years David Brainerd made a deeper impression on the world in which he lived than most men make in a long life time. Born at Haddam, Connecticut, converted, expelled from Yale in his junior year, a student of divinity under Jedediah Mills, a missionary among the Indians of Eastern United States, sickened and died in the home of Jonathan Edwards whose daughter he loved; such appear to be the bare facts of his life. But beneath these mere details is the thrilling account of a saintly evangelist whose brief ministrations were blessed by the most remarkable conversions and gracious outpourings of the Holy Spirit." - note at no. 637.
Rev. David Brainerd (1718-1747), born at Haddam, Connecticut. “…a celebrated missionary to the Indians…from his earliest years he had strong impressions of religion. In 1739 he entered Yale College, where he was distinguished for general propriety and devotion to study. An indiscreet remark that one of the tutors was as ‘destitute of grace as the chair,’ led, in 1742, to his expulsion. He continued without interruption the study of divinity, and, having been licensed to preach, he received from the Scotch Society for promoting Christian Knowledge an appointment as missionary to the Indians. In 1743 he labored among a Kaunameek tribe and the Delaware Indians. Receiving ordination in 1744, he settled in Crossweeks, N.J…Deep impressions were made on his savage hearers, so that is was no uncommon spectacle to see the whole congregation dissolved into tears. In the course of a year not less than seventy-seven Indians were baptized, of whom thirty-eight were adults, and maintained a character for Christian consistency. Leaving this little church to the care of William Tennant, Brainerd repaired, in the summer of 1746, to the Susquehanna tribe of Indians, but his previous labors had so much impaired his health that he was obliged to relinquish his work. In July, 1747, he returned to Northampton, where he found a hospitable asylum in the house of Jonathan Edwards, and died there…Such was the brief but active career of Brainerd the missionary. The love of Christ, and a benevolent desire for the salvation of men, burned in his breast with the ardor of an unquenchable flame…perhaps no one in the list of the most devoted missionaries that the Church has ever known undertook so great labors and submitted to so severe privations and self-denial as Brainerd.” – M’Clintock & Strong.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), b. East Windsor, CT, d. 1758, Princeton, NJ), "greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, stimulator of the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. He has been called 'The greatest philosopher-theologian yet to grace the American scene'". - Britannica .com
