Excerpt from Selections From the Unpublished Writings of Jonathan Edwards, of America But the present is a wholly independent series, - the old Bible having been in the possession of one of the grandchildren until the general committing of all in 1849-50 to Dr Tryon Edwards, as stated ante. In the "Notes on the Bible" mentioned above, there are various references to "the Blank Bible," which were not understood, but now are, in the light of our recovery of the present Annotations. Students of Edwards have always prized "above rubies" the "Notes" and "Observations" already extant; and I run no great hazard in anticipating that those now for the first time printed, will be equally valued. They seem to us to be of a more richly experimental character than the others, while there is the same acumen, quickness in discernment of Scriptural harmonies and parallelisms, soundness of interpretation of difficulties, happy accommodation, sweetness and tenderness of enforcement, overshadowed at times with solemn appeal, and rare ingenuity of "improvement," - as the Puritans were wont to call it. III. Directions for Judging of Persons' Experiences. - I have come upon this searching and very precious MS. since the issuing of my Proposals. It evidently formed the author's guide in his test-conversations with enquirers during the great Awakenings or Revivals. This - as well as eight instead of two sermons - is substituted for specimens of the original MS. of the treatise on "The Will," as explained onwards. IV. Sermons. - As stated, the great mass of the Edward's MSS. consists of his "Sermons." From among these a noble volume might be gathered, that is, of fully written out and magnificent Discourses: and another of equal weight and value, consisting of select passages from those less perfect, and, as a whole, of ordinary type, together with what clerics know as "skeletons" or "sketches," - many of them, as No. 2 of our selection will shew, mammoth-boned. I have given eight Sermons: Nos. 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8, consisting of two Sermons in each case from one text - in place of two Sketch-sermons only, as originally designed and announced - to illustrate the usual style of preparation by Jonathan Edwards for the pulpit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.