JE Pics for Matt

Jonathan Edwards images
Pictures taken at Yale University at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. November 3, 2017 and October 2, 2019

  1. The true christian’s life a journal to heaven. “To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is the highest good of the reasonable creature… God is the ocean.”
  2. 1890 letter from Tryon Edwards to Yale giving them all of Je’s manuscripts
  3. 1767 letter signed by 7 Edwards children leaving his manuscripts
  4. His latin dissertation on justification
  5. Note book “of free will”
  6. Receipt for Venus
  7. Northampton farewell sermon
  8. Blank Bible front page “Ben Pierpoint book 1728, JE book 1748”
  9. Blank Bible open to Genesis 1:1
  10. Blank Bible open to Romans 8:28
  11. Blank Bible open to Revelation 22
  12. Blank Bible physical size and cover
    1. Miscellany 583–585
  13. Sinners open to leaf showing the doctrine of the sermon “there is nothing that keeps wicked men…”
  14. Divine and supernatural light
  15. Last sermon notebook at northampton
  16. Latin valedictorian speech
  17. Miscellany 762–764
  18. Page 1 of ’notes on the Scriptures’ (wje15)
  19. Shadows of divine things
  20. Harmony of the Old Testament and New Testament
  21. JE cryptic deduction of the ecstatic experiences of Sarah during the great awakening.
  22. First letter (of what would eventually be many to his friend) from JE to John Erskine in Scotland

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