Download or read book Life and Diary of David Brainerd written by David Brainerd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark biography concerns David Brainerd, one of the most successful missionaries to live in the colonial era of North America. Although he lived a short life, perishing at the age of twenty-nine, David Brainerd distinguished himself as a missionary of supreme talent and capacity. Working in the barely charted wildernesses of North America in the early 18th century, his missions aimed to convert the Native American population to the Christian creed. Many converted, partly as Brainerd was capable of preaching sermons in the open air across the untrammeled countryside. After his missions lasted a little over three years, David was already famous for his successes. Overcoming fears of the Native Americans, he established whole communities of converts, and received several offers of work in large, existing churches in the safer, colonial towns. In rejecting these, he expresses his desire to keep converting the multitude of heathens naive to the greatness of God. A sensitive soul, David Brainerd suffered from a form of intermittent but severe depression, which was compounded by his lack of company in the wilderness. At times he was malnourished, and his mental and physical condition would become so poor that he was immobile. Eventually illness forced him to give up his ministry; retiring home, he was informed by a doctor that he had tuberculosis, and died in pain only a few months later. Brainerd's brief life, beset with struggles, was considered inspirational by many Christians. This biography, by Jonathan Edwards, is adapted from the journal that Brainerd kept throughout his life.
Download or read book The Life of Rev David Brainerd Chiefly Extracted from His Diary written by David Brainerd and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Brainerd was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians.
Download or read book The Life and Diary of David Brainerd written by Jonathan Edwards and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frail, prone to depression, Brainerd was an unlikely candidate for missionary work. Yet in the 18th century, he converted hundreds of Native Americans through his example of self-denial, commitment to prayer, and devotion to Christ. Edited by Jonathan Edwards, Brainerd's firsthand account chronicles his amazing ministry-one that continues to shape today's missions.
Download or read book The Life and Diary of David Brainerd with Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards Illustrated written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Diary of David Brainerd with Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards (Illustrated)David Brainerd (April 20, 1718-October 9, 1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. Jonathan Edwards, a pastor during the first Great Awakening published is diary and his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801-1829).Much of Brainerd's influence on future generations can be attributed to the biography compiled by Jonathan Edwards and first published in 1749 under the title of An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd. Edwards believed that a biography about Brainerd would have great value and set aside the anti-Arminian treatise he was writing (later published as Freedom of the Will) in order to create one. The result was an edited version of Brainerd's diary, with some passages documenting Brainerd's despair removed. It gained immediate recognition, with eighteenth-century theologian John Wesley urging: 'Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd. The most reprinted of Edwards's books, it has never been out of print and has thus influenced subsequent generations, mainly because of Brainerd's single-minded perseverance in his work in the face of significant suffering. Clyde Kilby summarised Brainerd's influence as being based on the fact that, 'in our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction'. From the eighteenth century, missionaries also found inspiration and encouragement from the biography. Gideon Hawley wrote in the midst of struggles: 'I need, greatly need, something more than humane [human or natural] to support me. I read my Bible and Mr. Brainerd's Life, the only books I brought with me, and from them have a little support'. Other missionaries who have asserted the influence of Jonathan Edwards's biography of Brainerd on their lives include Henry Martyn, William Carey, Jim Elliot. and Adoniram Judson.
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Download or read book An Extract of the Life of the Late Rev David Brainerd written by David Brainerd and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr David Brainerd written by David Brainerd and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.""
Download or read book The Life of Rev David Brainerd written by Josiah Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English evangelical clergyman, Josiah Pratt (1768-1844) has taken excerpts from the Diary of David Brainerd, quoting liberally from the "Life of Brainerd," by Jonathan Edwards, a preacher significent in the "Great Awakening," and adding his own observations to compile this biographical sketch of David Brainerd, a man so greatly used of God despite suffering from tuberculosis and bouts of depression. Christians the world over continue to be inspired by Brainerd's resolute persistence and bee-line focus on leading souls to Christ and pursuing after personal holiness.
Download or read book An Extract of the Life of the Late Rev David Brainerd Missionary to the Indians written by David Brainerd and published by Dublin : Printed by R. Napper for the Methodist Book-Room. This book was released on 1812 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
