Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) SELECTED SERMONS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS [Illustration: Jonathan Edwards.] 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 of learning as well as of religion; in addition to his pastoral duties, he fitted young men for college, and his liberal views of education appear in the fact that he made his daughters pursue the same studies these youths did. His mother, a daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, the minister of Northampton, is said to have resembled her distinguished father in strength of character and to have surpassed her husband in the native vigor of her mind. As regards remoter ancestry and their intellectual and moral qualities, Edwards seems also to have been well born; an exception, however, must be made of the eccentric and possibly insane grandmother on his father's side, whose outrageous conduct led to her divorce.[1]