Edwards, Jonathan:

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE REVEREND MR. DAVID BRAINERD, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS, FROM THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY IN SCOTLAND, FOR THE PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, ... The first biography of this famed missionary, adapted from his own diary and written by the renowned New England divine, Jonathan Edwards. Expelled from Yale for sympathizing with the Whitefield revival and for remarking that a college tutor had "no more grace than this chair," Brainerd was nevertheless successful as a missionary to various native tribes. He preached to tribes in Kaunaumeek (a settlement in the woods between Stockbridge and Albany), and then at present day Easton, Pennsylvania, and also at Crosweeksung (now Crosswicks, New Jersey). He died at the age of twenty-nine in the home of Edwards, whose daughter he was engaged to marry. Brainerd was subject to periods of depression, and it has been suggested that many of his emotional religious experiences during his time as a missionary were pathological in origin. Historian George Marsden, author of the definitive biography of Edwards, describes the Life of Brainerd as "Edwards' most popular work and one of the most influential missionary accounts of all time. John Wesley published an abridgment that went into many printings. During the awakenings of the first half of the nineteenth century The Life of Brainerd, republished in various editions, became one of the most popular of American literary works, both at home

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