SELECTED SERMONS
OF
JONATHAN EDWARDS
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
H. NORMAN GARDINER
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN SMITH COLLEGE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1904
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1904,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1904.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| INTRODUCTION | vii | |
| SERMONS: | ||
| I. | God Glorified in Man’s Dependence (1731) | 1 |
| II. | The Reality of Spiritual Light (1733) | 21 |
| III. | Ruth’s Resolution (1735) | 45 |
| IV. | The Many Mansions (1737) | 64 |
| V. | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) | 78 |
| VI. | A Strong Rod Broken and Withered (1748) | 98 |
| VII. | Farewell Sermon (1750) | 118 |
| NOTES | 155 | |
INTRODUCTION
Jonathan Edwards was born October 5, 1703, in what is now South Windsor,Conn., a part of the parish then known as “Windsor Farmes.” His father,the Rev. Timothy Edwards, the minister of the parish, a Harvard graduate,was reputed a man of superior ability and polished manners, a lover oflearning as well as of religion; in addition to his pastoral duties, hefitted young men for college, and his liberal views of education appear inthe fact that he made his daughters pursue the same studies these youthsdid. His mother, a daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, the minister ofNorthampton, is said to have resembled her distinguished father instrength of character and to have surpassed her husband in the nativevigor of