Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- JONATHAN EDWARDS'S PREFACE
- Dedication
- THE DIARY OF DAVID BRAINERD
- I From his Birth, and during his Preparation for the Ministry
- II His Experience and Religious Exercises until the Time he was Licensed to Preach
- III From the Time of his Appointment to his Entering on the Work of the Mission
- IV From the Time of his Examination to his first Entrance on the Business of his Mission
- V From his first Beginning to Instruct the Indians at Kaunaumeek to his Ordination
- VI His Removal to Crossweeksung, where he had his most Remarkable Success
- VII His Return to Susquehanna, and Last Illness
IV - From the Time of his Examination to his first Entrance on the Business of his Mission
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- JONATHAN EDWARDS'S PREFACE
- Dedication
- THE DIARY OF DAVID BRAINERD
- I From his Birth, and during his Preparation for the Ministry
- II His Experience and Religious Exercises until the Time he was Licensed to Preach
- III From the Time of his Appointment to his Entering on the Work of the Mission
- IV From the Time of his Examination to his first Entrance on the Business of his Mission
- V From his first Beginning to Instruct the Indians at Kaunaumeek to his Ordination
- VI His Removal to Crossweeksung, where he had his most Remarkable Success
- VII His Return to Susquehanna, and Last Illness
Summary
Friday, November 26.—Had still a sense of my great unworthiness, and endeavoured as much as I could to keep alone. O, what a nothing, what dust and ashes am I! Enjoyed some peace and comfort in spreading my complaints before the God of all grace.
Saturday, November 27.—Committed my soul to God with some degree of comfort; left New York about nine in the morning; came away with a distressing sense still of my unspeakable depravity. Surely I may well love all my brethren; for none of them all is so vile as I; whatever they do outwardly, yet it seems to me none is conscious of so much guilt before God. O my leanness, my barrenness, my carnality, and past bitterness, and want of a Gospel-temper! These things oppress my soul. Rode from New York, thirty miles, to White Plains, and most of the way continued lifting up my heart to God for mercy and purifying grace; and spent the evening much dejected in spirit.
Wednesday, December 1.—My soul breathed after God, in spiritual and longing desires of conformity to Him; was brought to rest itself and all on His rich grace, and felt strength and encouragement to do or suffer anything that divine providence should allot me. Rode about twenty miles from Stratfield to Newton.
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- The Diary of David Brainerd , pp. 80 - 97Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1802