An Account of the Life of Mr. David Brainerd, Missionary from the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge (1798)

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EDWARDS, JONATHAN

Brainerd, David

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1980 'Baker House' facsimile of original un-dated 1900 ca edition.

The Life of David Brainerd: Chiefly Extracted from His Diary

Baker Books

David Brainerd was a missionary to the American Indians from 1743-1747. But he is also remembered for his daily practice of fervent prayer and singleminded yearning for holiness. As Andrew Murray writes, Brainerd's example "rebukes the prayerlessness and lukewarmness of most Christian lives." This little book chronicles David Brainerd's spiritual journey, his struggles with his faith and work. Brainerd's life was brief (he died at the age of twentynine) but it was given to God with an intensity and wholeheartedness that few experience. This book is sure to inspire Christians to a greater devotion.

David Brainerd's Personal Testimony

Religion & Spirituality

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"I see the value of Christian biography tonight, as I have been reading Brainerd's Diary. . . . Enjoyed much sweetness (as he puts it) in the reading of the last months of Brainerd's life. . . . Was much encouraged to think ofa life ofgodliness in the light of an early death." - JIM ELLIOT, MARTYRED MISSIONARY TO THE AUCA INDIANS "Read David Brainerd today and yesterday, and find as usual my spirit greatly beneﬁted by it. I long to be like him; let me forget the world and be swallowed up in a desire to glorify God." - HENRY MARTYN, PIONEER MISSIONARY TO INDIA "Let every preacher read carefully over the life of David Brainerd. Let us be followers ofhim, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deafness to the world and in fervent love to God and man." - JOHN WESLEY, FOUNDER OF METHODISM This book brings together in a devotional guide forty passages from David Brainerd's writing. Each is followed by a prayer which helps the reader grasp the profound implications of Brainerd's thoughts for life today. Dr. Richard Hasler is a pastor in Hornell, N. Y., and a lecturer in philosophy and religion at Alfred University. He received the Ph.D. from the Hartford Seminary Foundation for his work on New England Puritanism.

Journey with David Brainerd: Forty days or forty nights with David Brainerd

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“Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd.” John Wesley\nDavid Brainerd has for centuries been referred to as the model missionary.\nThrough his short twenty-nine years on earth he focused solely upon doing one thing: to preach the gospel to those who had not yet heard its words.\nBorn in Haddam, Connecticut, in 1718, he lost his father at the age of nine and his mother at the age of fourteen.\nAt the age of twenty-one he had his road to Damascus moment and recorded that he had an experience of “unspeakable glory” that prompted him a “hearty desire to exalt [God], to set him on the throne and to ‘seek first his Kingdom.’"\nAlthough already suffering with the first signs of the tuberculosis, that would claim his life seven years later, he immersed himself in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and on 1st April 1743 began his life working as a missionary to Native Americans.\nThe Life and Diary of David Brainerd, that was compiled and edited by his good friend the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards, provides fascinating insight into Brainerd’s life preaching in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.\nThrough the course of his short life he preached to Housatonic Indians, Delaware Indians and in less than a year of being in Crossweeksung in New Jersey he had built up a church community of one hundred and thirty Native Americans.\nHe suffered endless trials and tribulations, not least continually spluttering blood from his ever-worsening tuberculosis, yet through all this he remained motivated. In his diary he stated his driving force behind his missionary activities on July 24th 1744: “All my desire was the conversion of the heathen, and all my hope was in God. God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts.”\nThe Life and Diary of David Brainerd is essential reading for anyone interested in the missionary activities that occurred among Native Americans in the colonial period as well as those who wish to read about the life of a man who pushed through endless difficulties with the aid of the gospel.\nDavid Brainerd was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. 
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, is a biography of David Brainerd by evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards, first published in 1749 under the title "An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd". Brainerd passed away in 1747 and Jonathan Edwards passed away in 1758.

The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

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An Extract Of The Life Of David Brainerd (1815)

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Literary

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David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a colonial American missionary to Native Americans made famous when Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) posthumously edited his journal and other writings into a popular biographical narrative. Having spent time at Yale University, Brainerd entered the ministry in 1742 and dedicated his life to work amongst native peoples in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey before expiring at the age of 29. This 1902 edition of The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd provided readers with a broader picture of his life and the source material from which Edwards composed his narrative. Volume 1 focuses mostly upon the diary, which contains Brainerd's discussion of his brief life, including not insignificant reference to the illness that claimed him. Ultimately, the thoughts preserved in this two-volume set are an important resource for those interested in religion in America during the period known as the 'Great Awakening'.

The Diary of David Brainerd (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion)

Cambridge University Press

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