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Information mostly taken from "The Life and Diary of David Brainerd" by Jonathan Edwards, and John Piper's biography on David Brainerd (www.doorway.runggo. Brainerd, David. Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians on the border of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; Chiefly taken from his own Diary, by Jonathan Edwards. Including his journal, now the first time incorporated with the rest of his diary, in a regula chronological series, by Serene Edwards Dwight. THE LIFE AND DIARY OF DAVID BRAINERD WITH NOTES AND REFLECTIONS * * * * * * * PREFACE THERE are two ways of representing and recommending true religion and virtue to the world; the one, by doctrine and precept; the other, by instance and example; both .

The Life of David Brainerd, also called The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, is a biography of David Brainerd by evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards, first published in under the title "An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd". David Brainerd was an early 18th Century American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the. The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd is of much more than merely historical interest. The first internationally recognized biography ever to be published, it has had a profound impact on successive generations of Christians around the world. Few books have done so much to promote prayer and missionary action, and it is not without good. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd - Kindle edition by Brainerd, David, Jonathan Edwards. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Life and Diary of David Brainerd.

It is fit the reader should be aware, that what Mr. Brainerd wrote in his diary, out of which the following account of his life is chiefly taken, was written only for his own private use, and not to get honour and applause in the world, nor with any design that the world should ever see it, either while he lived or after his death; excepting some few things that he wrote in a dying state, after he had been persuaded, with difficulty, not entirely to suppress all his private writings. There is one thing in Mr. Brainerd, easily discernible by the following account of his life, which may be called an imperfection in him, which — thoug h not properly an imperfection of a moral nature, yet — may possibly be made an objection against the ext raordinary. Preview — The Life and Diary of David Brainerd by David Brainerd. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd Quotes Showing of “If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory.