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. 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 EDWARDS DWIGHT. New-Haven: Printed and Published by S. Converse, 1822. 21x13 cm, pp. [1-7] 8-10 [11-13] 14-28 [29] 30-34 [35] 36-507 [508: blank], contemporary full tree calf, brown leather title label, spine panel tooled in gold. First printing of this edition. David Brainerd (1718–1747) was an American Presbyterian missionary who dedicated his short life to ministering to Native American tribes across New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Despite dying from tuberculosis at age 29, his posthumously published journals inspired generations of global missionaries. Brainerd was expelled from Yale College in 1742 during the Great Awakening for a critical comment about a tutor. Shortly after, he was commissioned by the Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. He endured severe poverty, loneliness, and health struggles, working as a missionary among the Delaware, Susquehanna, and Seneca tribes. His most notable ministry occurred in Crossweeksung (near Cranbury), New Jersey, where over 130 Native Americans were converted and a thriving Christian community was established. His profound legacy stems from his diary, which was edited by the prominent theologian Jonathan Edwards and published in 1749 as AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF DAVID BRAINERD. The book -- which has never gone out of print -- revealed Brainerd’s deep spiritual struggles, devotion, and sacrificial suffering. It became a foundational text for Protestant missions, serving as a primary inspiration for legendary figures like William Carey, Henry Martyn, and Jim Elliot. Field, Indian Bibliography 172 (this edition). See Howes B 717. Sabin 21953. Old repairs to spine ends, calf rubbed along outer joints, gift inscription on the front free endpaper, early owner's ink stamp on the front paste-down, scattered tanning and foxing to the text block and endpapers, a very good copy. (#179199).
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