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Though he was orphaned at age 14, repeatedly struck with debilitating illnesses, and unfairly expelled from college, Brainerd allowed nothing to deter him from serving God wholeheartedly. He traveled thousands of miles by horseback across treacherous terrain to preach the gospel to remote Indians. Their benefit ultimately brought about his early death at the age of 29. This book not only offers a captivating story, but an uplifting buoy for those who are weary, distant, or discouraged.

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.

David Brainerd, missionary to the Native Americans, has long been admired for his single minded perseverance. This book, edited by Jonathan Edwards, American's greatest theologian, has inspired missionaries and preachers since its publication in 1749. Indeed, John Wesley, Brainerd's contemporary, urges 'Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd'.This is Edwards' most reprinted book..

David Brainerd, missionary to the Native Americans, has long been admired for his single minded perseverance. This book, edited by Jonathan Edwards, American's greatest theologian, has inspired missionaries and preachers since its publication in 1749. Indeed, John Wesley, Brainerd's contemporary, urges 'Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd'.This is Edwards' most reprinted book..

David Brainerd, missionary to the Native Americans, has been admired for his single minded perseverance. This book, substantially edited by Jonathan Edwards, has inspired missionaries and preachers since its publication in 1749. John Wesley, Brainerd's contemporary, urges 'Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd'. Jonathan Edwards was American's greatest theologian and is widely read today. Never-the-less, this is his most reprinted book. It is perhaps the most complete edition of David Brainerd's writing. In addition to the Life and Diary of David Brainerd, it contains David Brainerd's Journal (which is distinct from, but is frequently mentioned in, the Life and Diary), three Appendices to the Journal (one on doctrine preached and its effects, and two on various aspects of his missionary endeavors) and concluding Notes and Reflections on all of the above.

Prepare to be challenged? Few books have done so much to promote prayer and missionary action as "The life and Diary of David Brainerd" by Jonathan Edwards. His total dedication to the cause of making Christ known inspired the finest of missionaries who followed in his footsteps. Notable pastors and missionaries like John Wesley, William Carey, Adoniram Judson, and Jim Elliot were all influenced by the life, passion, and dedication of David Brainerd. As John Piper rightly said, "David Brainerd's life is a vivid, powerful testimony to the truth that God can and does use weak, sick, discouraged, beat-down, lonely, struggling saints, who cry to him day and night, to accomplish amazing things for his glory." David Brainerd Life and Diary.

This compilation, taken from Jonathan Edwards's edited versions of David Brainerd's Diary and Journal, offers a highly readable account of the life and labors of David Brainerd, an early American missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Jonathan Edwards was an American Puritan theologian, preacher, and prolific author. When Brainerd died at the age of 29, Edwards preached the funeral sermon and published the diary that David had kept.

A major influence on the domestic and foreign missionary movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, "The Life and Diary of David Brainerd" is Jonathan Edwards' biography of David Brainerd. David Brainerd was an 18th century colonial American missionary. During the last five years of his lifetime, which was tragically cut short by tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine, he traveled over three thousand miles on horseback in order to spread the word of the bible to the native peoples of America. Brainerd's life was one of hardship. Orphaned at the age of fourteen, Brainerd suffered from a deep depression that was at times immobilizing. The tuberculosis that killed him which is believed to have been contracted some seven years earlier while he was a student at Yale was only made worse by the harsh wilderness lifestyle that his missionary work demanded. Jonathan Edwards substantially edited his diary for publication and published it posthumously in 1749; ever since it has been a source of inspiration for Christian missionaries the world over.

“Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd.” John WesleyDavid Brainerd has for centuries been referred to as the model missionary.Through 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.Born in Haddam, Connecticut, in 1718, he lost his father at the age of nine and his mother at the age of fourteen.At 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.’"Although 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. The 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.Through 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.He 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.”The 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.David 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.