Jonathan Edwards Sermons
Overview
Jonathan Edwards’ sermons were a key influence throughout the Great Awakening and have influenced countless preachers and theologians ever since. This selection of sermons from throughout his career provides a glimpse into a profound and prolific pulpit ministry.
Top Highlights
“In the mean outward circumstances of his birth. It was a wonderful thing, that the Son of God should be born at all, that he should be incarnate, that he should condescend to enter into the womb of a virgin, and so be born. It is a wonderful expression of grace, that he will take any notice at all of so little and inferior a thing as man, that he is treating with us and revealing himself to us. Ps. 8:3, ‘When I consider thy heavens, which thou hast made, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Matthew 21:5)
“To sanctify, is to communicate divine love. But this is proper for that person: he is divine love. The fountain” (John 14:17)
“But what is so remarkable, is that a man should be thus. But this is a prophecy of the Son of God incarnate.” (Isaiah 32:2)
“He hath in visible signs set before our eyes what we in the gospel hear with our ears.” (1 Corinthians 10:16)
“If we look at Christ’s love of complacence, Christ represents himself as having his heart ravished with the beauty of the souls of believers, Cant. 4:9. Christ takes greater delight in that beauty of holiness which he puts upon believers, than men do in any beauty of a fellow creature.” (1 Peter 1:8)
- Title: Jonathan Edwards Sermons
- Author: Jonathan Edwards
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 › Sermons
- Resource ID: LLS:JESERMONS
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:06:17Z
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is considered one of America’s greatest theologians. While attending Yale College, he encountered the same Calvinism that had influenced his own Puritan upbringing.
Three years after Edwards was ordained as a minister, the First Great Awakening began in his church, which prompted Edwards to study conversion and revival within the context of Calvinism. During the revival, Edwards preached his most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and penned many of his most popular works, including Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, and Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd.
In 1757, Edwards reluctantly became president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), where he hoped to complete two major works—an expansion of his treatise on the history of redemption and a study of the harmony of the Old and New Testaments. The Works of Jonathan Edwards (26 vols.) is a massive collection containing five decades’ worth of study and scholarship on and from Edwards.