An Index for the Life and Works of John Howe (1630–1705)

 

Biographical Data:

Wiki
DNB
Freedom After Ejection
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Benjamin Brook

Key Dates in John Howe’s Life

J. P. Hewlett’s A Brief Memoir

Edmund Calamy’s The Life of Mr. John Howe

Rogers, Henry. The Life and Character of John Howe, M.A.: With an Analysis of His Writings. London: William Ball, 1836.

Horton, Robert Forman. John Howe. London: Methuen & Co., 1895. (1, 2). 1905 Edition.

Scott, William Major. The Life of John Howe. London: Congregational Union of England & Wales, 1895.

Farah, Charles. The Theological Thought of John Howe (1630–1705). PhD diss. University of Edinburgh, 1956.
Field, David P. ‘Rigide Calvinisme in a Softer Dresse’: The Moderate Presbyterianism of John Howe (1630–1705). PhD diss. University of Cambridge, 1993. Published with Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2004.

Works:

EEBO Sources

I. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. Ed. John Hunt. 8 vols. London: F. Westley, 1822.

Volume 1—

• Editor’s Preface (John Hunt).
• Memoir
• Addenda to the Memoir
• I. A Discourse Concerning the Redeemer’s Dominion Over the Invisible World, and the Entrance Thereinto by Death.
• II. The Living Temple.
• III. Self-Dedication
• IV. Two Sermons on Yielding Ourselves to God, from Rom. 6:13.

Volume 2—

• I. Of Delighting in God.
• II. Charity in Reference to Other Men’s Sins.
• III. The Reconcileableness of God’s Prescience, &c.—With a Postscript.
• IV. Of Thoughtfulness for the Morrow—And the Immoderate Desire of Knowing Things to Come.
• V. Sermons.
• 1. Man’s Creation in a Holy but Mutable State.
• 2. Of Man’s Enmity Against God.
• 3. Of Reconciliation Between God and Man.
• 4. Prayer from the Name of God.
• 5. On the Inquiry, Do We Really Love God.
• 6. Peace God’s Blessing.
• 7. For the Reformation of Manners.

Volume 3—

• I. The Blessedness of the Righteous.
• II. The Vanity of Man as Mortal.
• III. Of Patience in Expectation of Future Blessedness—With an Appendix.
• IV. Funeral Sermons for Ministers.
• 1. For Mr. Rich. Fairclough, on Matt. 25:21.
• 2. For Mr. Richard Adams, on Phil. 1:23.
• 3. For Dr. William Bates, on John 11:16.
• 4. For Mr. Matthew Mead, on 1 Tim. 4:16.
• 5. For Mr. Peter Vink, on Acts 5:20.

Volume 4—

• I. Redeemer’s Tears Wept Over Lost Souls—With an Appendix.
• II. The Carnality of Religious Contention.
• III. Union Among Protestants.
• IV. Deliverance from the Power of Darkness.
• V. Funeral Sermons.
• 1. For Mrs. Esther Sampson, on Luke 13:16.
• 2. For Queen Mary, on Heb. 12:23.
• 3. For Mrs. Margaret Baxter, on 2 Cor. 5:8.
• 4. For Mrs. Judith Hammond, on 1 Cor. 15:54.
• VI. A Calm Discourse of the Trinity in the Godhead.
• —Letters on that Subject.
• —On a Postscript to the Defence of Dr. Sherlock’s Notion of the Trinity in Unity.
• —A View of Some Considerations Addressed to H. H. about the Trinity.
• —A Letter on Dr. Stillingfleet’s Sermon.
• VII. Occasional Conformity.
• VIII. Funeral Sermon for Mr. Howe, by J. Spademan.
• IX. Letters.
• X. A Fragment on James 5:15.

Volume 5—

• I. The Work of the Holy Spirit in Reference to Particular Persons, in Nineteen Sermons, on John 3:6 and Gal. 5:25.
• II. The Prosperous State of the Christian Interest by a Plentiful Effusion of the Holy Spirit, in Fifteen Sermons, on Ezekiel 39:2.
• III. The Obligations from Nature and Revelation, to Family Religion and Worship, in Six Sermons, on Joshua 24:15.
• IV. The Vanity of a Formal Profession of Religion, Considered in Eight Sermons on Titus 1:16.

Volume 6—

• I. The Love of God and Our Brother, in Seventeen Sermons, on 1 John 4:20.
• II. Thirteen Sermons on Various Subjects.
• Sermon I.—Acts 1:7. Preached at Mr. Case’s, March 3, 1675.
• Sermon II.—2 Cor. 4:8. Preached at Haberdashers’ Hall, February 27, 1675.
• Sermon III.—James 1:2. Preached at Haberdashers’ Hall, March 29, 1677.
• Sermon IV.—1 Peter 5:10. Preached at Plaisterers’ Hall, February 28, 1677.
• Sermon V.—Isaiah 63:10. Preached at Haberdashers’ Hall, June 1, 1677.
• Sermon VI.—James 1:22. Preached at Haberdashers’ Hall, September 16, 1677.
• Sermon VII.—Luke 18:1–3. Preached at Mr. Case’s, September 29, 1676.
• Sermon VIII.—Rom. 5:5. Preached at Jewin-Street, March 15, 1675.
• Sermon IX.—1 Thess. 5:6. Preached at Haberdashers’ Hall, May 2, 1678.
• Sermon X.—Daniel 9:25. Preached at Haberdashers’ Hall, September 2, 1678.
• Sermon XI.—Psalm 67:2, 3. Preached September 8, 1695.
• Sermon XII.—Joshua 24:20. Preached at Silver-Street, November 5, 1695.
• Advertisement.
• Sermon XIII.—Psalm 9:17. Preached Brixham January 23, 1658.
• III. The Principles of the Oracles of God. Part I. Containing,
• Advertisement.
• I. An Introduction, Proving the Necessity of Their Being Taught, in Two Lectures, on Heb. 5:12.
• II. The Existence of God, Manifest from the Creation, in Four Lectures, on Romans 1:20.
• III. The Divine Authority of the Scriptures, in Five Lectures, on James 2:19.
• IV. The Unity of the Godhead, in Two Lectures, on James 2:19.

Volume 7—

• The Principles of the Oracles of God. Part I. Continued.
• V. The Trinity of Persons in the Divine Essence, in Four Lectures, on John 5:7.
• VI. The Attributes and Perfections of the Divine Being, in Nine Lectures, on Matthew 5:48.
• The Principles of the Oracles of God, in Two Parts. Part II. Containing,
• I. The Decrees, or Counsels of God, in Eight Lectures, on Eph. 1:11.
• II. God’s Work of Creation, in Seven Lectures, on Heb. 11:3.
• III. God’s Creation of Man, in Five Lectures, on Genesis 1:27.
• IV. The Fall of the First Man, and the Fallen State of Man, with the Death and Misery Consequent on Each of Them, in Fourteen Lectures on Romans 5:12.
• V. The Justice and Righteousness of God Vindicated, as to All Men’s Coming into the World with Depraved Natures, in Eight Lectures, on Psalm 51:4, 5.

Volume 8—

• The Principles of the Oracles of God, in Two Parts. Part II. Concluded.
• VI. The General and Special Grace of God, in Order to the Recovery of Apostate Souls, in Three Lectures.
• Sermons:
• The Gospel Commending Itself to Every Man’s Conscience (Seven Sermons).
• The Gospel Hid to Those who are Lost (Six Sermons).
• On Hope (Fourteen Sermons).
• On Friendship with God (Ten Sermons).
• On Regeneration (Thirteen Sermons).

II. The Works of the Rev. John Howe, M. A. with Memoirs of His Life, by Edmund Calamy, D. D. Complete in One Volume. (New York: Published by John P. Haven, 1835).

• The Life of Mr. John Howe
• The Living Temple. Part I. Concerning God’s Existence, and his Conversableness with Man. Against Atheism, or the Epicurean Deism. Part II. Containing Animadversions on Spinosa, and a French Writer pretending to confute him. With a Recapitulation of the Former Part, and an Account of the Destitution and Restitution of God’s Temple among men.
• The Reconcileableness of God’s Prescience of the Sins of Men, with the Wisdom and Sincerity of his Counsels, Exhortations, and whatsoever Means he uses to prevent them. In a Letter to the Hon. Robert Boyle, Esq. To which is added a Postscript in Defence of the said Letter.
• A Calm and Sober Inquiry concerning the Possibility of a Trinity in the Godhead, in a Letter to a Person of worth; occasioned by the lately published Considerations on the Explications on the Doctrine of the Trinity, by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S—th, Dr. Cudworth, &c. Together with certain Letters, formerly written to the Reverend Dr. Wallis on the same subject.
• A Letter to a Friend concerning a Postscript to the Defence of Dr. Sherlock’s Notion of the Trinity in Unity, relating to the Calm and Sober Inquiry upon the same subject.
• A View of that part of the late Considerations addressed to H. H. about the Trinity, which concerns the Sober Inquiry on that subject. In a Letter to the former friend.
• A Letter written out of the Country to a Person of quality in the City, who took offence at the late Sermon of Dr. Stillingfleet, (Dean of St. Paul’s,) before the Lord Mayor.
• Some Consideration of a Preface to an Inquiry concerning the occasional Conformity of Dissenters.
• The Blessedness of the Righteous opened, and further recommended from the Consideration of the Vanity of this Mortal Life. In Two Treatises, on Psalm xvii. 15.
• The Vanity of this mortal life: or, of Man, considered in his present Mortal State.—Psalm lxxxix.
• A Discourse relating to the expectation of future Blessedness.—Hebrews x. 36.
• An Appendix, containing some memorial of Dr. Henry Sampson, a late noted Physician in the
• City of London.
• The worthy Dr. Grew’s Account of this his excellent Brother-in-law.
• A Discourse concerning the Redeemer’s Dominion over the Invisible World, and the entrance thereinto by death. Some part whereof was preached on occasion of the Death of John Hoghton, Esq. eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton, of Hoghton-Tower, in the County of Lancaster, Baronet.—Rev. i. 18.
• Of Thoughtfulness for the Morrow.—Matt. vi. 34.
• An Appendix to the foregoing Discourse, concerning the immoderate desire of knowing Things to come.
• A Treatise of Delighting in God.—Psalm xxxvii. 4. Part I. Showing the Import of this Precept. Part II. Concerning the Practice of Delight in God.
• Self-dedication discoursed in the Anniversary Thanksgiving of a Person of honour for a great Deliverance.—Rom. xii. 1.
• Two Sermons preached at Thurlow, in Suffolk, on those words, Rom. vi. 13. Yield yourselves to God.
• The Redeemer’s Tears wept over Lost Souls. A Treatise on Luke xix. 41, 42.
• Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and how God is said to will the Salvation of them that perish.
• The Carnality of Religious Contention, in Two Sermons, preached at the Merchants’ Lecture, in Broad Street.—Gal. v. 16.
• A Sermon concerning Union among Protestants: a Discourse answering the following Question, “What may most hopefully be attempted to allay animosities among Protestants, that our Divisions may not be our Ruin?”—Col. ii. 2.
• Of Charity in reference to other Men’s Sins.—1 Cor. xiii. 6.
• The right Use of that argument in Prayer, from the Name of God; on behalf of a People that profess it.—Jer. xiv. 21.
• The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit, in every age, with reference to Particular Persons: considered in several Sermons, on John iii. 6 and Gal. v. 25.
• The Prosperous State of the Christian Interest before the End of Time, by a plentiful effusion of the Holy Spirit, considered in Fifteen Sermons, on Ezek. xxxix. 29.
• The Obligations from Nature and Revelation to Family Religion and Worship, represented and pressed in Six Sermons; from Josh. xxiv. 15.
• The Vanity of a Formal Profession of Religion, considered in Eight Sermons, on Titus i. 16.
• The Love of God and our Brother, considered in Seventeen Sermons, on 1 John iv. 20.

Thirteen Sermons on Various Subjects.

• Serm. I. Times and Seasons reserved in the Father’s own power.—Acts i. 7.
• Serm. II. Believers troubled, yet not distressed.—2 Cor. iv. 8.
• Serm. III. Wherein afflictions are to be accounted joyful.—James i. 2.
• Serm. IV. The Improvement of Afflictions desired.—1 Peter v.10.
• Serm. V. The Sin and Consequence of vexing the Holy Spirit.—Isa. lxiii. 10.
• Serm. VI. Obedience to be united with hearing the Word.—James i. 22.
• Serm. VII. The Parable of the Unjust Judge.—Luke xviii. 1–8.
• Serm. VIII. The Influence of Hope.—Rom. v. 5.
• Hope maketh not ashamed. . . Ph tad
• Serm. IX. Christians exhorted not to sleep, as do others.—1 Thes. v. 6.
• Sermon X. Jerusalem rebuilt in troublous times.—Dan. ix. 25.
• Serm. XI. David’s prayer, that the way of God may be known upon Earth.—Psalm lxvii. 2, 3.
• Serm. XII. The Sin and Danger of forsaking the Lord.—Josh. xxiv. 20.
• Serm. XIII. The Wicked turned into Hell.—Psalm ix. 17.

Sermons:

• I. On the Gospel recommending itself to every Man’s Conscience. Seven Sermons from 2 Cor. iv. 2.
• II. They to whom the Gospel is hid, are lost souls. Six Sermons, from 2 Cor. iv. 3.
• III. On Hope. Fourteen Sermons, from Rom, viii. 24.
• IV. Friendship with God. Ten Sermons, from James ii. 23.
• V. On Regeneration. Thirteen Sermons, from 1 John v. 1.
• A Sermon directing what we are to do, after a strict Inquiry, whether or no we truly love God.—John v. 42.
• A Sermon on the Thanksgiving-day, Dec. 2, 1697.—Psalm xxix. 1.
• A Sermon for the Reformation of Manners.—Rom. xiii. 4.
• A Two-fold Discourse. I. Of Man’s Enmity against God. II. Of Reconciliation between God and Man.—Col. i. 21.
• A Sermon preached on the Fifth of November, 1703.—Col. i. 13.

Funeral Sermons.

• A Funeral Sermon for that faithful and laborious Servant of Christ, Mr. Richard Fairclough, who deceased July 4, 1682, in the 61st year of his age.—Matt. xxv. 21.
• A Sermon on the much-lamented Death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ, Mr. Ri- chard Adams, M. A. sometime Fellow of Brazen-nose College in Oxford, afterwards Minister of St. Mildred, Bread-street, London, more lately Pastor of a Congregation in Southwark, who deceased Feb. 7, 1697–8.—Phil. i. 23.
• A Funeral Sermon for that excellent Minister of Christ, the truly Rev. William Bates, D. D. who deceased July 14, 1699.—John xi. 16.
• A Funeral Sermon for that very reverend and most laborious Servant of Christ, in the Work of the Ministry, Mr. Matthew Mead, who deceased Oct. 16, 1699.—1 Tim. iv. 16.
• A Funeral Sermon for that faithful, learned, and most worthy Minister of the Gospel, the Rev, Peter Vink, B. D. who deceased Sept. 6, 1702.—Acts v. 20.
• A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson.— Luke xiii. 16.
• A Discourse relating to the much-lamented Death and solemn Funeral of Queen Mary.—Heb. xii. 23.
• A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Margaret Baxter.—2 Cor. v. 8.
• A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Judith Hammond.—1 Cor. xv. 54.

Letters

Fragment of a Sermon.

Mr. Spademan’s Funeral Sermon for Mr. John Howe.—2 Tim. iii. 14.

The Principles of the Oracles of God. In Two Parts.

Part I. containing,

• I. An Introduction, proving the Necessity of their being taught, in Two Lectures, on Heb. v. 12.
• II. The Existence of God, manifest from the Crea- tion, in Four Lectures, on Rom. i. 20.
• III. The Divine Authority of the Scriptures, in Four Lectures, on 2 Tim. iii. 16.
• IV. The Unity of the Godhead, in Two Lectures, on James ii. 19.
• V. The Trinity of Persons in the Divine Essence, in Four Lectures, on 1 John v. 7.
• VI. The Attributes and Perfections of the Divine Being, in Nine Lectures, on Matt. v. 48.

Part II. containing,

• I. The Decrees or Counsels of God, in Eight Lectures, on Ephes. i. 11.
• II. God’s Work of Creation, in Seven Lectures, on Heb. xi. 3.
• III. God’s Creation of Man, in Three Lectures, on Gen. i. 27.
• IV. The Fall of the First Man, and the Fallen State of Man, with the Death and Misery consequent on each of them, in Fourteen Lectures, on Rom. v. 12.
• V. The Justice and Righteousness of God vindicated, as to all Men’s coming into the World with depraved Natures, in Eight Lectures, on Psalm li. 4, 5.
• VI. The General and Special Grace of God, in order to the Recovery of Apostate Souls, in Three Lectures, on Luke ii. 14.

III. The Works of the Reverend John Howe (1630–1705). 3 vols. London: William Tegg and Co., 1848. Logos 1848 edition. Repr. Ligonier, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1990.

Volume 1—
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Life of the Author
The Livine Temple, Part I.
The Living Temple, Part II.
Self-Dedication
Yield Yourselves to God
Enmity and Reconciliation between God and Man:
     Sermon I., on Enmity
     Sermon II., on Reconciliation
Man’s Creation in a Holy but Mutable State
     On Delighting in God—Part I.
     On Delighting in God—Part II.

Volume 2—
The Blessedness of the Righteous
The Vanity of Man as Mortal
The Redeemer’s Tears Wept Over Lost Souls
     Appendix to the Redeemer’s Tears
Of Thoughtfulness for the Morrow
     Appendix—On the Immoderate Desire for Knowing Things to Come
Of Charity in Reference to Other Men’s Sins
Of the Divine Prescience
     Postscript on the Divine Prescience
Inquiry Concerning the Possibility of a Trinity
Letters to Dr. Wallis on the Trinity
Sixteen Summary Propositions on the Trinity
A Letter to a Friend, Concerning a Postscript to the Defence of Dr. Sherlock’s Notion of the Trinity in Unity, Relating to the Calm and Sober Inquiry Upon the Same Subject
View of the Late Considerations Addressed to H. H. about the Trinity
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Volume 3—
The Redeemer’s Dominion over the Invisible World
Patience in Expectation of Future Blessedness
     Appendix—Containing some Memorial of Dr. Henry Sampson
The Carnality of Religious Contention. Sermon I
The Carnality of Religious Contention. Sermon II
Union among Protestants
Deliverance from the Power of Darkness
On Prayer from the Name of God
Peace Considered as God’s Blessing. A Thanksgiving Sermon
The Duty of Civil Magistrates
On the Inquiry—Whether or no we truly Love God

Funeral Sermons
Mrs. Esther Sampson—Satan’s Malice in Inflicting, and Christ’s Compassion in Curing, Diseases
Queen Mary—Heaven a State of Perfection
Mrs. Margaret Baxter—The Good Man’s Desire of being absent from the Body, in order to his being present with the Lord
Mrs. Judith Hammond—The Christian’s Triumph over Death

Funeral Sermons for Ministers
Rev. Richard Fairclough—The Faithful Servant Applauded and Rewarded
Rev. Richard Adams, M.A.
Rev. William Bates, D.D.
Rev. Matthew Mead
Rev. Peter Vink, B.D.

Letters and Papers on Nonconformity
A Letter Concerning Dr. Stillingfleet’s Sermon
Some Consideration of a Preface to an Inquiry Concerning the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters, &c.
Letter to Dr. Barlow, bishop of Lincoln
Letter to his Congregation on his leaving England, (1685)
Case of the Protestant Dissenters Represented and Argued
Humble Requests both to Conformists and Dissenters on the Passing of the Act of Toleration
A Letter to a Person of Honour on Occasional Conformity (posthumous)

Letters
To Lady Russell, on the Execution of Lord Russell
To a Friend, on the loss of an excellent Wife
To a Gentlewoman, on the loss of a beloved Daughter
To a New Married Couple
To a Lady, on the loss of her Parents
To the same, on the Death of a most hopeful Son
Three Letters to Mr. Spilsbury

Prefaces and Dedications
Dedication prefixed to the third volume of Dr. Manton’s Works
Prefaces to Manton’s Sermons
Preface to Chorlton’s Funeral Sermon for Rev. Henry Newcome
Preface to Flavel’s Discourse on Mental Errors
Preface to Corbet’s Self-Employment

Fragments
On a Particular Faith in Prayer
Epitaph on the Monumental Slab of the Rev. George Hughes
Passages in Mr. Howe’s Study Bible
Funeral Sermon for Mr. John Howe, by John Spademan

Textual Index
Index of Subjects

IV. The Works of John Howe, M.A. With a General Preface by Henry Rogers. 6 vol. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1862–63.

Volume 1—

• General Preface.
• The Blessedness of the Righteous.
• The Vanity of this Moral Life.
• Man’s Creation in a Holy but Mutable State.

Volume 2—

• A Treatise of Delighting in God. In Two Parts.
• The Redeemer’s Tears Wept over Lost Souls.
• The Redeemer’s Dominion over the Invisible World.

Volume 3—

• The Living Temple; Or, A Designed Improvement of that Notion that a Good Man is the Temple of God. In Two Parts.

Volume 4—

• On Self-Dedication, and on “Yielding Ourselves Unto God.”
• On Thoughtfulness for the Morrow; And the Desire of Foreknowing Things to come.
• On Charity in Reference to Other Men’s Sins.
• On Prayer from the Name of God.
• On Union Among Protestants; And the Carnality of Religious Contention.
• On Man’s Enmity Against God, and Reconciliation Between God and Man.
• On the Love of God.

Volume 5—

• The Reconcilableness of God’s Prescience of the Sins of Men with the Wisdom and Sincerity of His Counsels, Exhortations, and Whatsoever Other Means He Uses to Prevent Them, in a Letter to the Hon. Robert Boyle, ESQ.
• A Postscript to the Late Letter of the Reconcilableness of God’s Prescience, etc.
• A Letter to a Friend Concerning a Postscript to the Defence of Dr. Sherlock’s Notion of the Trinity in Unity, Relating to the Calm and Sober Inquiry Upon the Same Subject.
• A View of the Late Considerations Addressed to H. H. About the Trinity.
• Letter Concerning Stillingfleet’s Sermon.
• Some Consideration of a Preface to an Inquiry Concerning the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters, etc.
• Annotations on the Three Epistles General of John. (Also in Matthew Poole’s Annotations)
• A Sermon on the Thanksgiving-Day, December 2, 1697. To the Right Honourable the Lord Haversham.—Psalm 29:11.
• A Sermon for the Reformation of Manners. Preached February 14, 1698.—Romans 13:4.
• A Sermon Preached November 5, 1703.—Colossians 1:13.
• Preface to Corbet’s Self-Employment.

Volume 6—

• Advertisement.
• A Discourse Relating to the Expectation of Future Blessedness.
• An Appendix, Containing Some Memorial of Doctor Henry Sampson, a Late Noted Physician in the City of London.
• A Discourse Relating to the Much Lamented Death, and Solemn Funeral of Our Incomparable and Most Gracious Queen Mary.
• A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson.
• A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Margaret Baxter.
• A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Judith Hammond.
• A Funeral Sermon for that Faithful and Laborious Servant of Christ, Mr. Richard Fairclough, who Deceased July 4, 1682, in the Sixty-First Year of His Age.
• A Sermon on the Much Lamented Death of that Reverend and Worthy Servant of Christ, Mr. Richard Adams, M.A., Sometime Fellow of Brazen-nose College in Oxford, Afterwards Minister of St. Mildred, Bread-Street, London, More Lately Pastor of a Congregation in Southwark. Who Deceased February 7th, 1697–8.
• A Funeral Sermon, for that Excellent Minister of Christ, the Truly Rev. William Bates, D.D. Who Deceased July 14th, 1699.
• A Funeral Sermon for that Very Reverend and Most Laborious Servant of Christ, in the Work of the Ministry, Mr. Matthew Mead, Who Deceased October 16, 1699.
• A Funeral Sermon for that Faithful, Learned, and Most Worthy Minister of the Gospel, the Rev. Peter Vink, B.D., Who Deceased September 6, 1702.
• Letter.
• A Sermon, on the Occasion of the Justly Lamented Death of the Truly Reverend Mr. John Howe, Deceased April 2nd, Preached to His Congregation, April 8, 1705, and Published at Their Request. By John Spademan, Minister of the Gospel.—2 Tim. 3:14.
• Index

Miscellaneous:

John Howe, “Sermon IV: What May Most Hopefully Be Attempted to Allay Animosities Among Protestants, That Our Divisions May Not Be Our Ruin? (Col. 2:2),” in The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, 6 vols., ed. Samuel Annesley, 5th ed. (London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1844–1845), 3:81–110.

John Howe, “Sermon V: Man’s Creation in a Holy But Mutable State (Eccl. 7:29),” in The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, 6 vols., ed. Samuel Annesley, 5th ed. (London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1844–1845), 5:82–92.

Reita Yazawa, “John Howe (1630–1705) on Divine Simplicity: A Debate over Spinozism,” in Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Muller on the Maturation of a Theological Tradition, ed. J. J. Ballor, D. S. Sytsma, and J. Zuidema. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 170 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013), 629–40.

An Index of Various Books Containing Some Unpublished Sermons by Jonathan Edwards (Arranged by Date of Publication and Canonically)

I. Grosart, Alexander B., ed. Selections from the Unpublished Writings of Jonathan Edwards of America. [Edinburgh, Ballantyne] 1865; Repr. Ligonier, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1992.

• 1. Facsimiles, (preface to title-page).
• 2. Dedication.
• 3. Introduction.
• 4. Treatise on Grace. Chap. I. [Shewing] that Common Grace and Saving Grace differ, not only in Degree, but in Nature and Kind; Chap. II. Shewing wherein all Saving Grace does summarily consist; Chap. III. Shewing how a Principle of Grace is from the Spirit of God.
• 5. Annotations on Passages of the Bible.
• 6. Directions for Judging of Persons’ Experiences.
• 7. Sermons. [on the following texts]
• I. Matthew vii. 14—“Few there be that find it.” (Similar Sermon at Yale; 124. Matt. 7:14a)
• II. 2 Timothy iii. 16—“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.”
• III. and IV. Romans v. 1—“We have peace with God.”
• V. and VI. Acts xxiv. 25—“Felix trembling.” (Yale)
• VII. and VIII. 1 Peter iii. 19, 20—“The spirits in prison.” (Yale)

II. Edwards, Jonathan. Altogether Lovely: The Glory and Excellency of Jesus Christ. Ed. Don Kistler. Grand Rapids, MI: Soli Deo Gloria, 1997.

• Foreword by R. C. Sproul
• God the Best Portion of the Christian (Preached in April, 1736)—Psalm 73:25.
• The Excellency of Christ (Preached in August, 1736)—Rev 5:5–6.
• Christ Exalted (Preached in August, 1738)—1 Cor 15:25–26.
• Safety, Fullness, and Sweet Refreshment in Christ (Preached in August, 1736)—Isa 32:2.
• Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever (Preached in April, 1738)—Heb 13:8.
• The Pure in Heart Blessed (Preached in Stockbridge, MA in 1753)—Matt 5:8.
• Christ the Example of Ministers (An ordination sermon preached on June 28, 1749)—John 13:15–16.
• Unbelievers Condemn the Glory and Excellency of Christ (Preached in May, 1736)—Acts 4:11.
• Praise One of the Chief Employments of Heaven (Preached on November 7, 1734)—Rev 14:2.

III. Nichols, William C., ed. Seeking God: Jonathan Edwards’s Evangelism Contrasted with Modern Methodologies. Ames, IA: International Outreach, 2001.

Introduction

• 1. The Vain Self-Flatteries of the Sinner—Psa 36:2.
• 2. Natural Men Are God’s Enemies—Rom 5:10.
• 3. A Natural Condition Is a Dreadful Condition—Acts 16:29, 30.
• 4. The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable—Ezek 32:14.
• 5. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God—Deut 32:35.
• 6. The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners—Rom 3:19.
• 7. The Manner in Which the Salvation of the Soul Is to Be Sought—Gen 6:22.
• 8. A Possibility of Being Saved Is Better Than a Certainty of Perishing—2 Kings 7:3–4.
• 9. It Is God’s Manner to Make Men Sensible of Their Misery and Unworthiness—Hos 5:15.
• 10. Persons Ought to Endeavor to Be Convinced of Sin—Jer 2:23.
• 11. Pressing into the Kingdom of God—Luke 16:16.
• 12. Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer—Job 27:10.
• 13. True Grace Distinguished from the Experience of Devils—James 2:19.
• 14. Directions for Judging Experiences.
• 15. God Is Very Angry at the Sins of Children (To the children at a private meeting, February 1740–41)—2 Kings 2:23–24.
• 16. Safety, Fullness, and Sweet Refreshment in Christ—Isa 32:2.
• 17. A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God.

Conclusion

IV. Edwards, Jonathan. Standing in Grace. Ed. Don Kistler. Grand Rapids, MI: Soli Deo Gloria, 2002. This is taken from Edwards’s “Treatise on Grace,” in Selections from the Unpublished Writings of Jonathan Edwards, of America, ed. Alexander B. Grosart ([Edinburgh, Ballantyne], 1865), 19–56. Also later published in Jonathan Edwards, “Treatise of Grace,” in Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith, ed. Sang Hyun Lee and Harry S. Stout, vol. 21, The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2003), 149–97.

• 1. Common and Saving Grace Differ, Not Only in Degree, but in Nature and Kind (at Yale)
• 2. Wherein All Saving Grace Does Summarily Consist (at Yale)
• 3. How a Principle of Grace Is from the Spirit of God (at Yale)

V. McMullen, Michael D., ed. The Blessing of God: Previously Unpublished Sermons of Jonathan Edwards. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishers, 2003.

Introduction to Jonathan Edwards the Preacher

• 1. The Way to Obtain the Blessing of God Is Not to Let Him Go Except He Bless Us—Gen 32:26–29.
• 2. That Such Persons Are Very Imprudent and Foolish Who Don’t Consider Their Latter End—Deut 32:29.
• 3. It Is a Matter of Great Comfort and Rejoicing to Anyone in Whatever Circumstances He Is In, When He Can Say That He Knows His Redeemer—Job 19:25.
• 4. That It Is the Tempter of the Truly Godly to Delight to Exalt God and to Lay Themselves Low—Psa 115:1.
• 5. That We Ought to Make Religion Our Present and Immediate Business—Psa 119:60.
• 6. That God Is Everywhere Present—Psa 139:7–10.
• 7. God Stands Ready to Forgive Every Sinner upon His Heartily Confessing and Forsaking His Sin—Prov 28:13.
• 8. The Day of a Godly Man’s Death Is Better Than the Day of His Birth—Eccl 7:1.
• 9. Thy Name Is as Ointment Poured Forth—Song of Solomon 2:3.
• 10. That at a Time When a People Are Called for a General Humiliation, It Becomes Each One to Mourn for His Own Iniquity (Sermon 1)—Ezek 7:16.
• 11. That at a Time When a People Are Called for a General Humiliation, It Becomes Each One to Mourn for His Own Iniquity (Sermon 2)—Ezek 7:16.
• 12. Those Sinners Who Are Saved, It is God Who Saves Them—Hos 13:9.
• 13. All Mankind of All Nations, White and Black, Young and Old, Is Going in One or the Other of These Paths, Either in the Way That Leads to Life or the Way that Leads to Destruction—Matt 7:13–14.
• 14. So None Ought to Come into the Christian Church but Good Men—Matt 13:47–50.
• 15. What is Meant by Believing in Christ?—Mark 16:15–16.
• 16. When the Spirit of God Has Been Remarkably Poured Out on a People, a Thorough Reformation of Those Things That Before Were Amiss Amongst Them Ought to Be the Effect of It—Acts 19:19.
• 17. There Never Was Any Love That Could Be Paralleled with the Dying Love of Christ—Rom 5:7–8.
• 18. In True Conversion Men’s Bodies Are in Some Respect Changed as Well as Their Souls—1 Thess 5:23.
• 19. Jesus Christ Is the Great Mediator and Head of Union in Whom All Elect Creatures in Heaven and Earth Are United to God and to One Another—1 Tim 2:5.
• 20. ’Tis Impossible That God Should Be Under Any Temptation to Do Anything That Is Evil—James 1:13.
• 21. That God Is the Father of Lights—Jam 1:17.
• 22. Nothing Else Is Required of Us in Order to Our Having an Interest in Christ, but That We Should Find It in Our Hearts to Be Willing That Christ Should Be Ours and We His—Rev 3:20.

VI. Nichols, William C., ed. Knowing the Heart: Jonathan Edwards on True and False Conversion. Ames, IA: International Outreach, 2003.

Introduction

• The Heart of Man is Exceeding Deceitful—Jer 17:9.
• Man Is Naturally a Proud Creature—Job 11:12.
• The Nature of Man is so Corrupted that He Is Become a Very Evil and Hateful Creature—Matt 10:17.
• Those Whom God Hates, He Oftentimes Gives Plenty of Earthly Things To—Gen 27:39.
• The Gadarenes Loved Their Swine Better Than Jesus Christ—Mark 5:16–17.
• If the Business of Ministers Was to Gratify Men’s Lusts They Would Be Much Better Received—Micah 2:11.
• A Pretence of Trusting in Christ is a Vain Pretence as Long as Men Live Wicked Lives—Micah 3:11.
• Men Are Exceeding Prone to Bring Their Principles to Agree With Their Lusts (1738)—2 Tim 4:3.
• Persons Ought Not to Rest Ignorant and Unresolved About Their Own State Whether They Be Real Christians or No—2 Cor 13:5.
• Sinners Under Means of Grace Are Ordinarily More Hardened Than the Heathen—Matt 11:21.
• A Man May Eternally Undo Himself in One Thought of His Heart—Acts 8:20–22.
• That Particular Repentance is Necessary to Salvation—Acts 8:22.
• Persons Ought to Do What They Can for Their Salvation—Eccl 9:10.

Concluding Summary

The Testimony of Yeonsoo Kim

VII. Kistler, Don, ed. The Puritan Pulpit: The American Puritans—Jonathan Edwards. Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 2004.

• Sermon 1. God Never Changes His Mind—Num 23:19.
• Sermon 2. It Is Well for Us That God Is Not As We Are (May, 1754)—Hos 11:9.
• Sermon 3. God Doesn’t Thank Men for Doing Those Things He Commands Them—Luke 17:9.
• Sermon 4. Men’s Addiction to Sin Is No Excuse, but an Aggravation—2 Pet 2:14.
• Sermon 5. God Is Kind to the Unthankful and the Evil—Luke 6:35.
• Sermon 6. A Man May Eternally Undo Himself in One Thought of His Heart—Acts 8:20–22.
• Sermon 7. There is a Mutual Abhorrence Between God and Wicked Men—Zech 11:8.
• Sermon 8. There is Nothing Like Seeing What God Is to Make Men Sensible What They Are (July, 1734)—Isa 6:5.
• Sermon 9. God Does What He Pleases—Dan 4:35.
• Sermon 10. ’Tis the Spirit of a Truly Godly Man to Prefer God before All Other Things Either in Heaven or on Earth (April, 1736)—Psa 73:25.
• Sermon 11. Christ Is the Christian’s All—Col 3:11.
• Sermon 12. God Is Everywhere Present—Psa 139:7–10.
• Sermon 13. Spiritual Appetites Need No Bounds—Song of Solomon 5:1.
• Sermon 14. There Is Much of the Goodness and Mercy of God Appearing in the Commands He Has Given Us—Deut 10:13.
• Sermon 15. Contending with God—Psa 18:26.
• Sermon 16. God Is a Being of Transcendent Mercy—Psa 108:4.

VIII. McMullen, Michael D., ed. The Glory and Honor of God: Volume 2 of the Previously Unpublished Sermons of Jonathan Edwards. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishers, 2004.

Introduction to the Preaching of Jonathan Edwards

• 1. That Wicked Men’s Sins Lie at Their Door—Gen 4:7.
• 2. The Glory and Honor of God Requires That His Displeasure Be Manifested Against Sin—Num 14:21.
• 3. ’Tis a Blessed Thing to Some Persons That God Is to Be Their Judge—Psa 7:8.
• 4. That Wicked Men Be Not Apt to Be Sensible but That It Will Always Be with Them as It Is Now—Psa 10:6.
• 5. God’s Manner Is First to Prepare Men’s Hearts and Then to Answer Their Prayers—Psa 10:17.
• 6. That This Present World Shall One Day Come to an End—Psa 102:25–26.
• 7. It’s a Very Decent and Comely Thing That Praise Should Be Given to God—Psa 147:1.
• 8. Faith Renders Those Things That Are Most Terrible in Their Own Nature Harmless to Believers—Dan 6:23.
• 9. It Is What May Well Make Us Willing and Desirous to Go with God’s People, That God Is with Them—Zech 8:23.
• 10. When a Company or Society of Christians Have Christ Present with Them, ’Tis the Greatest Cause of Joy to Them—Matt 9:15.
• 11. That the Son of God by Appearing in Our Nature Laid a Glorious Foundation for Peace to the Inhabitants of This World—Luke 2:14.
• 12. That Hearing and Keeping the Word of God Renders a Person More Blessed Than Any Other Privilege That Ever God Bestowed Than Any of the Children of Men—Luke 11:27–28.
• 13. Even As I Have Kept My Father’s Commandments—John 15:10.
• 14. Jesus Christ Is the Shining Forth of the Father’s Glory—Heb 1:3.
• 15. Those Who Love Christ Shall Receive of Him a Crown of Life—James 1:12.
• 16. It Would Have Been Better for Some Persons If Christ Never Had Come into the World to Save Sinners—1 Pet 2:8.
• 17. That a Christian Spirit Is of Great Price in the Sight of God—1 Pet 3:4.
• 18. The Spirit of the True Saints Is a Spirit of Divine Love—1 John 4:16.
• 19. Christ Was Worthy of His Exaltation upon the Account of His Being Slain—Rev 5:12.
• 20. In Hell Is Inflicted the Fierceness of the Wrath of a Being That Is Almighty—Rev 19:15.

IX. Edwards, Jonathan. To the Rising Generation: Addresses Given to Children and Young Adults. Ed. Don Kistler. Orlando, FL: Soli Deo Gloria, 2005.

• 1. Early Piety Is Especially Acceptable to God (Preached at a private meeting in November 1734)—2 Chronicles 34:2–3.
• 2. The Sudden Death of Children (Preached in February 1749/50)—2 Kings 4:18–20.
• 3. The Time of Youth Is the Best Time to Be Improved for Religious Purposes—Ecclesiastes 12:1.
• 4. The Sins of Youth Go With Them to Eternity (To the young people at a private meeting, March 1733)—Job 20:11.
• 5. The Most Direct Way to Happiness (Preached in May 1734)—Proverbs 24:13–14.
• 6. God Is Very Angry at the Sins of Children (To the children at a private meeting February 1740/41)—2 Kings 2:23–24.
• 7. Children Ought to Love the Lord Jesus Christ above All Things in this World (To the children, August 1740)—Matthew 10:37.
• 8. Corrupt Communication (For a meeting of the young people, July 1740)—Ephesians 4:29.
• 9. A Flower Cut Down (To a private meeting of young people after Billy Sheldon’s death February 1740/41. Afterwards preached the doctrinal part with the new application at the end on the occasion of the death of my daughter Jerusha, February 21, 1747/8)—Job 14:2.
• 10. Don’t Lead Others into Sin—1 Corinthians 8:13.
• 11. A Lovely and Pleasant Sight (Given at the quarterly lecture, November 1744)—Psalm 144:12.
• 12. The Awful Death of Unclean Youth (Given at the quarterly lecture, November 1748)—Job 36:14.
• 13. The Danger of Sinful Mirth (Given at a lecture-day evening meeting in November 1734)—Ecclesiastes 7:6.
• 14. A Letter to a Young Convert (Sometime in 1741, a young lady residing in Smithfield, Connecticut, who had lately made a profession of religion, requested Mr. Edwards to give her some advice as to the best manner of maintaining a religious life. In reply, he addressed to her the following letter, which will be found eminently useful to all persons just entering on the Christian course.)
• 15. Bible Questions for the Children of Northampton.

X. Edwards, Jonathan. Unless You Repent: Fifteen Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Fate Awaiting the Impenitent. Ed. Don Kistler. Orlando, FL: Soli Deo Gloria, 2005.

• Sermon 1. ’Tis Unreasonable to Think that God Will Take No Care to Punish the Wickedness That There Is in the World—Jer 5:9.
• Sermon 2. Vengeance for Sin Properly Belongs to God—Deut 32:35.
• Sermon 3. It Is One Design That God Has Upon His Heart to Show How Terrible His Wrath Is—Rom 9:22.
• Sermon 4. God Has Sworn That He Will Be Revenged on Wicked Men (1738)—Deut 32:40–42.
• Sermon 5. Wicked Men Answer the End of Their Beings in No Other Other Way But in Their Suffering—Prov 16:4.
• Sermon 6. All Wicked Men Shall Go to Hell—Matt 5:29.
• Sermon 7. The Punishment and Misery of Wicked Men in Another World Will Be in Proportion to the Sin that They are Guilty of—Matt 5:22.
• Sermon 8. The Wicked Hereafter Will Be Cast into a Furnace of Fire—Matt 13:41–42.
• Sermon 9. The Bodies of Wicked Men, as Well as Their Souls, Will be Punished Forever in Hell—Matt 10:28.
• Sermon 10. The Torments of Hell are Exceedingly Great—Luke 16:24.
• Sermon 11. The Torments of Hell Will Be Eternal—Mark 9:44.
• Sermon 12. Wicked Men in Hell Will Remember How Things Were with Them Here in this World—Luke 16:25.
• Sermon 13. Wicked Men Will Hereafter Have This to Aggravate Their Woe, that They Shall See Many of All Kinds and Nations Admitted into Glory, While They Themselves are Thrust Out—Luke 13:28–29.
• Sermon 14. The Wicked in Hell Will be Sensible What a Happy State the Saints are in Heaven—Luke 16:25.
• Sermon 15. When God’s Time Comes to Take Vengeance on His Enemies, He Will Not Meet Them as a Man—Isa 47:3.

XI. Edwards, Jonathan. A Just and Righteous God: 18 Sermons (13 Previously Unpublished). Ed. Don Kistler. Orlando, FL: Soli Deo Gloria, 2006.

• Chapter 1. God Is a Just and Righteous God—Psa 119:137; Deut 32:4.
• Chapter 2. It Is Crime Enough to Render Any Man a Cursed Person, Not to Love Jesus Christ—1 Cor 16:22.
• Chapter 3. God Carries His People Along Through the World Far Above the Reach of All Their Enemies, or Anything that Might Hinder Their Blessedness—Exod 19:4.
• Chapter 4. The Grace of God in the New Covenant Eminently Appears in That We Are Justified Only by Faith—Rom 4:16.
• Chapter 5. Wicked Men’s Sins Lie at Their Door—Gen 4:7.
• Chapter 6. The Covenant of Grace Firm and Sure—2 Sam 23:5.
• Chapter 7. Some Men Shall Never be Saved—Num 14:22–23.
• Chapter 8. A Heart to Do the Will of God—Deut 5:27–29.
• Chapter 9. God Will Deal with Men According to Their Own Temper and Practice—2 Sam 22:26–27.
• Chapter 10. The Ladder that God Has Set on the Earth for Man to Ascend to Happiness Reaches Even Unto Heaven—Gen 28:12.
• Chapter 11. God, as the Giver and Judge of the Law, Deals with the Utmost Strictness—Josh 24:19.
• Chapter 12. God’s Wisdom in His Stated Method of Bestowing Grace—Exod 20:24.
• Chapter 13. The Way to Obtain the Blessing of God Is to Resolve Not to Let God God Unless He Blesses Us—Gen 32:26–29.
• Chapter 14. Christian Charity—Deut 15:7–11.
• Chapter 15. The Sin of Theft and Injustice—Exod 20:15.
• Chapter 16. Unresolvedness in Religion Is Very Unreasonable—1 Kings 18:21.
• Chapter 17. Temptation and Deliverance—Gen 39:12.
• Chapter 18. Ministries and Their People Most Meet One Another Before Christ’s Tribunal on the Day of Judgment—2 Cor 1:14.

XII. Nichols, William C., ed. The Torments of Hell: Jonathan Edwards on Eternal Damnation. Ames, IA: International Outreach, 2006.

Introduction

• That Wicked Men Are Children of the Devil—John 8:44.
• The Wicked Hereafter Will Be Cast into a Furnace of Fire (1733)—Matt 13:41–42.
• That the Bodies of Wicked Men as Well as Their Souls Will Be Punished in Hell Forever—Matt 10:28.
• That the Punishment and Misery of Wicked Men in Another World Will Be in Proportion to the Sin that They Are Guilty of—Matt 5:22.
• That the Torments of Hell Will Be Eternal—Mark 9:44.
• The Eternity of Hell Torments (1739)—Matt 25:46.
• That the Torments of Hell Are Exceedingly Great—Luke 16:24.
• Wicked Men in Hell Will Remember How Things Were With Them in this World—Luke 16:25.
• They That Are Gone to Hell Are All of Them in Despair (1733/34)—Isa 38:18.
• In Hell Is Inflicted the Wrath of a Being That Is Almighty (1734)—Rev 19:15.
• The Wicked in Hell Will Be Sensible What a Happy State the Saints Are in in Heaven—Luke 16:25.
• The End of the Wicked Contemplated by the Righteous (1733)—Rev 18:20.
• The Reason Why Men No More Regard Warnings of Future Punishment Is Because It Don’t Seem Real to Them—Gen 19:14.

Conclusion

XIII. Minkema, Kenneth P. and Adriaan C. Neele, ed. Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables. Volume I: True and False Christians (On the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins). Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.

Preface

Introduction: Edwards the Preacher (Wilson H. Kimnach)

Introduction: Historical Context (Bryan McCarthy)

True and False Christians: (On the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins) (1737)—Matthew 25:1: Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.  

• Doctrine. The church is espoused to the Lord Jesus Christ.

XIV. Minkema, Kenneth P. and Adriaan C. Neele, ed. Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables. Volume II: Divine Husbandmen (On the Parable of the Sower and the Seed). Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.

Preface

Introduction: Edwards the Preacher (Wilson H. Kimnach)

Introduction: The Historical Context (Kenneth P. Minkema and Adriaan C. Neele)

Divine Husbandman (On the Parable of the Sower and the Seed): Matthew 13:3–4: Behold, a sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up. JE’s notations at the head of the sermon indicate that he originally preached this in Nov. 1740, and repreached it in Stockbridge in April 1756.

• Observation. Those that God sends forth to preach the gospel, may fitly be compared to husbandmen going forth to sow their seed.
• Improvement.
• [Doctrine Resumed].
• Application.
• [Doctrine Resumed]. Matthew 13:5–6: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
• [Application].
• [Doctrine Resumed].
• Proposition. Sudden conversions are very often false.
• Application.
• [Doctrine Resumed]. Observation. That religion that arises only from superficial impressions, is wont to wither away from want of root when it comes to be tried by the difficulties of religion.
• Application.
• [Doctrine Resumed]. Matthew 13:7: And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them.

Epilogue.

Appendix: George Whitefield, Directions How to Hear Sermons (1739)—Luke 8:18: Take Heed therefore how ye hear.  

XV. Minkema, Kenneth P., and Adriaan C. Neele, ed. Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables, Volume III. Fish Out of Their Element (On the Parable of the Net). Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.

Preface

Introduction: Edwards the Preacher (Wilson H. Kimnach)

Introduction: The Historical Context (Kenneth P. Minkema and Adriaan C. Neele)

Fish Out of Their Element (The Parable of the Net)—Matthew 13:47–50.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good unto the vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

• OBSERVATION I: The conversion of sinners may fitly be compared to the taking fish in a net.
• OBSERVATION II: The mercy and grace of God revealed in the gospel extends to all sorts of persons.
• OBSERVATION III: There are many persons that seem to be converted, that are not so really.
• OBSERVATION IV: Wicked men cannot always enjoy their element but must, first and last, be forever separated from it.
• OBSERVATION V: {The wicked shall} not always remain mingled among the righteous. Missing in manuscript.
• OBSERVATION VI: This world must come to an end.
• OBSERVATION VII: When the full number of the elect shall be gathered in, the end of the world will soon come.
• OBSERVATION VIII: God will hereafter deal with the righteous, as men are wont to treat that which they prize as the portion they live upon.
• OBSERVATION IX: God will hereafter cast away unsound professors.
• OBSERVATION X: God makes use of the ministry of angels in affairs relating to the eternal state of mankind.
• OBSERVATION XI: Wicked men will hereafter be cast into a furnace of fire.
• OBSERVATION XII: In the misery of the damned, there will be a mixture of sorrow and rage.

XVI. Kistler, Don, ed. Grace and Truth: Rare Sermons by Jonathan Edwards. Orlando, FL: The Northampton Press, 2014. Kindle edition.

• Sermon 1. Jesus Christ is Full of Grace and Truth.—John 1:16? [John 1:14].
• Sermon 2. If Persons Have Ever Tasted the Sweetness of the Word and the Grace of Christ, They Will Be Longing for More of It.—1 Peter 2:2–3.
• Sermon 3. There is an Answerableness Between the Greatness of the Misery of Hell and the Happiness of Heaven.—John 3:16.
• Sermon 4. ’Tis in Vain for Any to Expect to Have Their Prayers Heard as Long as They Continue in the Allowance of Sin.—Psalm 66:18a.
• Sermon 5. ’Tis Unreasonable to Think that God Will Take No Care to Punish the Wickedness that There Is in the World.—Jeremiah 5:9.
• Sermon 6. There is a Great Difference Between Converted and Unconverted Men.—Matthew 15:26.
• Sermon 7. Not Everyone Who Says Unto Christ, “Lord, Lord,” Shall Enter Into the Kingdom of Heaven.—Matthew 7:21.
• Sermon 8. The Wrath of God Attends All the Concerns of Some Men.—Job 18:15.
• Sermon 9. God Has Sworn That He Will Be Revenged on Wicked Men.—Deut. 32:40–42.
• Sermon 10. ’Tis Not Inconsistent With the Attributes of God to Punish Ungodly Men With a Misery That Is Eternal.—Rev. 19:2–3.
• Sermon 11. Unawakened Sinners Heap Up to Themselves Wrath Against the Day of Wrath as Men are Wont to Heap Up Treasures.—Rom. 2:5(a).
• Sermon 12. The Bodies of Wicked Men as Well as Their Souls Will Be Punished Forever in Hell.—Matt. 10:28. [Not at Yale; According to Yale, there’s a copy at Andover Newton Theological School]
• Sermon 13. Wicked Men Will Hereafter Wish to Be Turned to Nothing and Forever Cease to Be that They May Escape the Wrath of God.—Rev. 6:15–16.
• Sermon 14. Christian Charity.—Deut 15:7–11.
• Sermon 15. The Perpetuity and Change of the Sabbath.—1 Cor 16:1–2.

XVII. Kistler, Don, ed. Grace and Truth: Containing 13 Previously Unpublished Sermons by Jonathan Edwards. Orlando, FL: The Northampton Press, 2017. Print edition. See 2014 Kindle edition above.

XVIII. Nichols, William C., ed. The True Gospel: Jonathan Edwards on Eternal Salvation. Ames, IA: International Outreach, 2018.

Preface

• That Wicked Men, Though for a While They may Seem to Forsake their Sins, Yet if their Natures are Not Changed, They will be Very Liable to Return to Them Again—Prov 26:11.
• God Will Not be Slack in Punishing Wicked Men—Deut 7:10.
• God Is a Consuming Fire—Heb 12:29.
• Jesus Christ is Both the Only Priest and Sacrifice by which Eternal Redemption is Obtained for Believers—Heb 9:12.
• That the Entrance into Eternal Life is a Strait and Narrow Passage—Matt 7:14.
• That If we Would be Christ’s Disciples it is Necessary that we should Deny Ourselves—Luke 9:23.
• Not Every One that Saith unto me Lord, Lord, Shall Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that Doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven—Matt 7:21.
• Sudden Conversions Are Very Often False—Matt 13:5.
• God Sometimes Punishes Sin by Giving Men Up to Sin—Rom 1:24.
• Men Provoke God by Their Sins till God Takes up a Resolution that they Never Shall Be Saved—Num 14:22, 23.
• Those that God on in the Sin of Drunkenness Are in the Way to Bring God’s Fearful Wrath and a Most Amazing Destruction Upon Themselves—Deut 29:18–21.
• Though a People that Live under Means are Wont in General to Seek and Hope for Salvation yet ’tis the Election Only that Obtain and the Rest are Blinded—Rom 11:7.
• ’Tis Greatly to be Desired That We Should Have a Thorough and Not a Slight and Deceitful Cure of Our Spiritual Wound—Jer 8:11.
• Persons in Seeking Heaven Should Behave in Like Manner as Resolute Soldiers do in Taking a Country or Kingdom in Which They are Strongly Opposed—Matt 11:12.
• That God Unalterably Determines the Limits of Every Man’s Life—Job 14:5.

Conclusion

XIX. Minkema, Kenneth P., Adriaan C. Neele, and Allen M. Standon, ed. Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Epistle to the Galatians. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019.

Preface

Introduction: Edwards the Preacher (William H. Kimnach)

Introduction: Historical Context (Kenneth P. Minkema and Adriaan C. Neele)

• Only that Sort of Faith that Works by Love Avails Anything before God (1728)—Gal 5:6.
• Christ’s Particular Respect to Every Believer in His Work of Redemption (1728–29)—Gal 2:20.
• The Gospel No Encouragement to Sin (1731–32)—Gal 2:17.
• Flesh and Spirit (1745)—Gal 5:17.
• Christ and Believers One Mystical Person (1746)—Gal 3:16.
• The Holy Spirit the Sum of the Blessings Purchased for Us by Christ (1746)—Gal 3:13.
• Saving Faith Worketh by Love (1751)—Gal 5:6.

XX. Kistler, Don, ed. Wrath Against the Day of Wrath: 15 Previously Unpublished Sermons on God’s Judgment Against Sin by Jonathan Edwards (1701–1758). Orlando, FL: The Northampton Press, 2022. Kindle 2016.

• 1. Unawakened Sinners Heap Up to Themselves Wrath Against the Day of Wrath as Men Are Wont to Heap Up Treasures. A sermon on Romans 2:5.
• 2. ’Tis No Matter What We Go Through in Order to Salvation So That We Do But Obtain It at Last. A Sermon on Philippians 3:11.
• 3. All the Pleasure or Comfort that Wicked Men Will Ever Have They Have in This Life. A sermon on Luke 6:24.
• 4. Not Everyone Who Says Unto Christ, “Lord, Lord,” Shall Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. A sermon on Matthew 7:21.
• 5. Wicked Men Cannot Bear the Misery of Damnation. A sermon on Isaiah 33:14.
• 6. Wicked Men, Though They May Seem Outwardly to Forsake Their Wickedness, Yet if Their Natures Aren’t Changed, Will Be Very Liable to Return to Their Old Wickedness Again. A sermon on Proverbs 26:11.
• 7. Those Who Are God’s Own People Have Much More Reason to Fear God’s Chastisements for Their Sins than Others. A sermon on Psalm 94:10.
• 8. There Is Nothing Gotten by Ways of Sin. A sermon on Proverbs 24:20.
• 9. He that Doesn’t Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Wrath of God Abides on Him. A sermon on John 3:36.
• 10. Unless Persons Believe in Jesus Christ They Shall Never See Eternal Life. A sermon on John 3:36.
• 11. ’Tis in Itself More Rational to Suppose that Wicked Men Should Be Most Extremely and Eternally Miserable in Another World. A sermon on Matthew 23:33.
• 12. Sudden Conversions are very Often False. A sermon on Matthew 13:5–6.
• 13. Wicked Men are the Devil’s Captives. A sermon on 2 Timothy 2:26.
• 14. When God Comes to Execute Deserved Punishment on Ungodly Men He Will Not Pity Them. A sermon on Ezekiel 8:18.
• 15. The Worst Punishments Men Can Inflict Are as Nothing in Comparison of Damnation. A sermon on Luke 12:5.
• 16. Those That Are Going On in Sin Would Do Well to Consider the End Thereof. A sermon on Jeremiah 5:31.

XXI. Kistler, Don, ed. Sermons on the Lord’s Supper by Jonathan Edwards. 2nd ed. Orlando, FL: Northampton Press, 2007; 2024.

• Sermon 1. The Thing Designed in the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper Is the Communion of Christians in the Body and Blood of Christ—1 Cor 10:16.
• Sermon 2. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper Is A Very Sacred Ordinance (1732)—1 Cor 11:29.
• Sermon 3. The Lord’s Supper Ought to Be Kept Up and Attended in Remembrance of Christ (1734)—Luke 22:19.
• Sermon 4. The Lord’s Supper Was Instituted as a Solemn Representation and Seal of the Holy and Spiritual Union of Christ’s People Have with Christ and One Another (1750/51)—1 Cor 10:17.
• Sermon 5. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper Is the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ (1745)—1 Cor 10:16.
• Sermon 6. Persons Ought to Examine Themselves of Their Fitness Before They Presume to Partake of the Lord’s Supper (1756)—1 Cor 11:28–29.
• Sermon 7. The Spiritual Blessings of the Gospel Are Fitly Represented by a Feast—Luke 14:16.
• Sermon 8. Christians Have Communion with Christ—1 Cor 1:9.
• Sermon 9. All Divine Blessings Are as Much in and through Christ as If They Were a Feast Provided by His Flesh That Was Given for Us (1749)—John 6:51.

Appendix

• Sermon 10. The Gospel Dispensation Is Finished Wholly and Entirely in Free and Glorious Grace—Zech 4:7.
• Sermon 11. The New Birth (1753)—John 3:3.
• Sermon 12. When God Sends His Messengers to Preach His Word, His Word Shall Not Be in Vain—Ezek 3:27.
• Sermon 13. Those Only Who Are Holy Are on the Way to Heaven—Isa 35:8.
• Sermon 14. Christ Is a Person of Transcendent Worthiness in the Sight of God (1736)—Heb 1:5.
• Sermon 15. God Is a Being Possessed of the Most Absolutely Perfect Happiness (1738)—1 Tim 6:15.

Sermons in Canonical Order (red text indicates some duplication, though not necessarily the exact same rendering, in the publishers; WJE is Works of Jonathan Edwards in the printed Yale edition):

Genesis

• That Wicked Men’s Sins Lie at Their Door.—Gen 4:7. McMullen, 2004; SDG, 2006.
• The Manner in Which the Salvation of the Soul Is to Be Sought.—Gen 6:22. Nichols, 2001.
• The Reason Why Men No More Regard Warnings of Future Punishment Is Because It Don’t Seem Real to Them.—Gen 19:14. Nichols, 2006.
• Those Whom God Hates, He Oftentimes Gives Plenty of Earthly Things To.—Gen 27:39. Nichols, 2003.
• The Ladder that God Has Set on the Earth for Man to Ascend to Happiness Reaches Even Unto Heaven.—Gen 28:12. SDG, 2006.
• The Way to Obtain the Blessing of God Is Not to Let Him Go Except He Bless Us.—Gen 32:26–29. McMullen, 2003; SDG, 2006.
• Temptation and Deliverance.—Gen 39:12. SDG, 2006.

Exodus

• God Carries His People Along Through the World Far Above the Reach of All Their Enemies, or Anything that Might Hinder Their Blessedness.—Exod 19:4. SDG, 2006.
• The Sin of Theft and Injustice.—Exod 20:15. SDG, 2006.
• God’s Wisdom in His Stated Method of Bestowing Grace.—Exod 20:24. SDG, 2006.

Numbers

• The Glory and Honor of God Requires That His Displeasure Be Manifested Against Sin.—Num 14:21. McMullen, 2004.
• Men Provoke God by Their Sins till God Takes up a Resolution that they Never Shall Be Saved.—Num 14:22, 23. SDG, 2006; Nichols, 2018.
• God Never Changes His Mind.—Num 23:19. SDG, 2004.

Deuteronomy

• A Heart to Do the Will of God.—Deut 5:27–29. SDG, 2006.
• God Will Not be Slack in Punishing Wicked Men.—Deut 7:10. Nichols, 2018.
• There Is Much of the Goodness and Mercy of God Appearing in the Commands He Has Given Us.—Deut 10:13. SDG, 2004.
• Christian Charity.—Deut 15:7–11. SDG, 2006; Kistler, 2014/2017.
• Those that God on in the Sin of Drunkenness Are in the Way to Bring God’s Fearful Wrath and a Most Amazing Destruction Upon Themselves.—Deut 29:18–21. Nichols, 2018.
• God Is a Just and Righteous God.—Psa 119:137; Deut 32:4. SDG, 2006.
• That Such Persons Are Very Imprudent and Foolish Who Don’t Consider Their Latter End.—Deut 32:29. McMullen, 2003.
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.—Deut 32:35. Nichols, 2001.
• Vengeance for Sin Properly Belongs to God.—Deut 32:35. SDG, Repent, 2005.
• God Has Sworn That He Will Be Revenged on Wicked Men (1738).—Deut 32:40–42. SDG, Repent, 2005; Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.

Joshua

• God, as the Giver and Judge of the Law, Deals with the Utmost Strictness.—Josh 24:19. SDG, 2006.

2 Samuel

• God Will Deal with Men According to Their Own Temper and Practice.—2 Sam 22:26–27. SDG, 2006.
• The Covenant of Grace Firm and Sure.—2 Sam 23:5. SDG, 2006.

1 Kings

• Unresolvedness in Religion Is Very Unreasonable.—1 Kings 18:21. SDG, 2006.

2 Kings

• God Is Very Angry at the Sins of Children (To the children at a private meeting, February 1740–41).—2 Kings 2:23–24. Nichols, 2001; SDG, Rising, 2005.
• The Sudden Death of Children (Preached in February 1749/50).—2 Kings 4:18–20. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• A Possibility of Being Saved Is Better Than a Certainty of Perishing.—2 Kings 7:3–4. Nichols, 2001.

2 Chronicles

• Early Piety Is Especially Acceptable to God (Preached at a private meeting in November 1734).—2 Chronicles 34:2–3. SDG, Rising, 2005.

Job

• Man Is Naturally a Proud Creature.—Job 11:12. Nichols, 2003.
• A Flower Cut Down (To a private meeting of young people after Billy Sheldon’s death February 1740/41. Afterwards preached the doctrinal part with the new application at the end on the occasion of the death of my daughter Jerusha, February 21, 1747/8).—Job 14:2. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• That God Unalterably Determines the Limits of Every Man’s Life.—Job 14:5. Nichols, 2018.
• The Wrath of God Attends All the Concerns of Some Men.—Job 18:15. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• It Is a Matter of Great Comfort and Rejoicing to Anyone in Whatever Circumstances He Is In, When He Can Say That He Knows His Redeemer.—Job 19:25. McMullen, 2003.
• The Sins of Youth Go With Them to Eternity (To the young people at a private meeting, March 1733).—Job 20:11. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer.—Job 27:10. Nichols, 2001.
• The Awful Death of Unclean Youth (Given at the quarterly lecture, November 1748).—Job 36:14. SDG, Rising, 2005.

Psalms

• ’Tis a Blessed Thing to Some Persons That God Is to Be Their Judge.—Psa 7:8. McMullen, 2004.
• That Wicked Men Be Not Apt to Be Sensible but That It Will Always Be with Them as It Is Now.—Psa 10:6. McMullen, 2004.
• God’s Manner Is First to Prepare Men’s Hearts and Then to Answer Their Prayers.—Psa 10:17. McMullen, 2004.
• Contending with God.—Psa 18:26. SDG, 2004.
• The Vain Self-Flatteries of the Sinner.—Psa 36:2. Nichols, 2001.
• ’Tis in Vain for Any to Expect to Have Their Prayers Heard as Long as They Continue in the Allowance of Sin.—Psalm 66:18a. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• ’Tis the Spirit of a Truly Godly Man to Prefer God before All Other Things Either in Heaven or on Earth (April, 1736) [“God the Best Portion of the Christian”].—Psa 73:25. SDG, 1997; SDG, 2004.
• Those Who Are God’s Own People Have Much More Reason to Fear God’s Chastisements for Their Sins than Others.—Psalm 94:10. Kistler 2016/2022.
• That This Present World Shall One Day Come to an End.—Psa 102:25–26. McMullen, 2004.
• God Is a Being of Transcendent Mercy.—Psa 108:4. SDG, 2004.
• That It Is the Tempter of the Truly Godly to Delight to Exalt God and to Lay Themselves Low.—Psa 115:1. McMullen, 2003.
• God Is a Just and Righteous God.—Psa 119:137; Deut 32:4. SDG, 2006.
• That We Ought to Make Religion Our Present and Immediate Business.—Psa 119:60. McMullen, 2003.
• That God Is Everywhere Present.—Psa 139:7–10. McMullen, 2003; SDG, 2004.
• A Lovely and Pleasant Sight (Given at the quarterly lecture, November 1744).—Psalm 144:12. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• It’s a Very Decent and Comely Thing That Praise Should Be Given to God.—Psa 147:1. McMullen, 2004.

Proverbs

• Wicked Men Answer the End of Their Beings in No Other Other Way But in Their Suffering.—Prov 16:4. SDG, Repent, 2005.
• The Most Direct Way to Happiness (Preached in May 1734).—Proverbs 24:13–14. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• There Is Nothing Gotten by Ways of Sin.—Proverbs 24:20. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• That Wicked Men, Though for a While They may Seem to Forsake their Sins, Yet if their Natures are Not Changed, They will be Very Liable to Return to Them Again.—Prov 26:11. Nichols, 2018; Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• God Stands Ready to Forgive Every Sinner upon His Heartily Confessing and Forsaking His Sin.—Prov 28:13. McMullen, 2003.

Ecclesiastes

• The Day of a Godly Man’s Death Is Better Than the Day of His Birth.—Eccl 7:1. McMullen, 2003.
• The Danger of Sinful Mirth (Given at a lecture-day evening meeting in November 1734).—Ecclesiastes 7:6. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• Persons Ought to Do What They Can for Their Salvation.—Eccl 9:10. Nichols, 2003.
• The Time of Youth Is the Best Time to Be Improved for Religious Purposes.—Ecclesiastes 12:1. SDG, Rising, 2005.

Song of Solomon

• Thy Name Is as Ointment Poured Forth.—Song of Solomon 2:3. McMullen, 2003.
• Spiritual Appetites Need No Bounds.—Song of Solomon 5:1. SDG, 2004.

Isaiah

• There is Nothing Like Seeing What God Is to Make Men Sensible What They Are (July, 1734).—Isa 6:5. SDG, 2004.
• Safety, Fullness, and Sweet Refreshment in Christ (Preached in August, 1736).—Isa 32:2. SDG, 1997; Nichols, 2001.
• Wicked Men Cannot Bear the Misery of Damnation.—Isaiah 33:14. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• Those Only Who Are Holy Are on the Way to Heaven.—Isa 35:8. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• They That Are Gone to Hell Are All of Them in Despair (1733/34).—Isa 38:18. Nichols, 2006.
• When God’s Time Comes to Take Vengeance on His Enemies, He Will Not Meet Them as a Man.—Isa 47:3. SDG, Repent, 2005.

Jeremiah

• Persons Ought to Endeavor to Be Convinced of Sin.—Jer 2:23. Nichols, 2001.
• ’Tis Unreasonable to Think that God Will Take No Care to Punish the Wickedness That There Is in the World.—Jer 5:9. SDG, Repent, 2005; Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• Those That Are Going On in Sin Would Do Well to Consider the End Thereof.—Jer 5:31. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• ’Tis Greatly to be Desired That We Should Have a Thorough and Not a Slight and Deceitful Cure of Our Spiritual Wound.—Jer 8:11. Nichols, 2018.
• The Heart of Man is Exceeding Deceitful.—Jer 17:9. Nichols, 2003.

Ezekiel

• When God Sends His Messengers to Preach His Word, His Word Shall Not Be in Vain.—Ezek 3:27. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• That at a Time When a People Are Called for a General Humiliation, It Becomes Each One to Mourn for His Own Iniquity (Sermon 2).—Ezek 7:16. McMullen, 2003.
• When God Comes to Execute Deserved Punishment on Ungodly Men He Will Not Pity Them.—Ezekiel 8:18 [sic in Kindle]. Should be Ezekiel 8:8. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable.—Ezek 32:14. Nichols, 2001.

Daniel

• God Does What He Pleases.—Dan 4:35. SDG, 2004.
• Faith Renders Those Things That Are Most Terrible in Their Own Nature Harmless to Believers.—Dan 6:23. McMullen, 2004.

Hosea

• It Is God’s Manner to Make Men Sensible of Their Misery and Unworthiness.—Hos 5:15. Nichols, 2001.
• It Is Well for Us That God Is Not As We Are (May, 1754).—Hos 11:9. SDG, 2004.
• Those Sinners Who Are Saved, It is God Who Saves Them.—Hos 13:9. McMullen, 2003.

Micah

• If the Business of Ministers Was to Gratify Men’s Lusts They Would Be Much Better Received.—Micah 2:11. Nichols, 2003.
• A Pretence of Trusting in Christ is a Vain Pretence as Long as Men Live Wicked Lives.—Micah 3:11. Nichols, 2003.

Zechariah

• The Gospel Dispensation Is Finished Wholly and Entirely in Free and Glorious Grace.—Zech 4:7. Kistler (NHP), 2024; WJE 10, 1992.
• It Is What May Well Make Us Willing and Desirous to Go with God’s People, That God Is with Them.—Zech 8:23. McMullen, 2004.
• There is a Mutual Abhorrence Between God and Wicked Men.—Zech 11:8. SDG, 2004.

Matthew

• The Pure in Heart Blessed (Preached in Stockbridge, MA in 1753).—Matt 5:8. SDG, 1997.
• The Punishment and Misery of Wicked Men in Another World Will Be in Proportion to the Sin that They are Guilty of.—Matt 5:22. SDG, Repent, 2005; Nichols, 2006.
• All Wicked Men Shall Go to Hell.—Matt 5:29. SDG, Repent, 2005.
• All Mankind of All Nations, White and Black, Young and Old, Is Going in One or the Other of These Paths, Either in the Way That Leads to Life or the Way that Leads to Destruction.—Matt 7:13–14. McMullen, 2003.
• That the Entrance into Eternal Life is a Strait and Narrow Passage.—Matt 7:14a. Grosart, 1865/SDG, 1992; Nichols, 2018.
• Not Every One that Saith unto me Lord, Lord, Shall Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that Doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven.—Matt 7:21. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017; Nichols, 2018; Kistler, (NHP), 2016/2022.
• When a Company or Society of Christians Have Christ Present with Them, ’Tis the Greatest Cause of Joy to Them.—Matt 9:15. McMullen, 2004.
• The Nature of Man is so Corrupted that He Is Become a Very Evil and Hateful Creature.—Matt 10:17. Nichols, 2003.
• The Bodies of Wicked Men, as Well as Their Souls, Will be Punished Forever in Hell.—Matt 10:28. SDG, Repent, 2005; Nichols, 2006; Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• Children Ought to Love the Lord Jesus Christ above All Things in this World (To the children, August 1740).—Matthew 10:37. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• Persons in Seeking Heaven Should Behave in Like Manner as Resolute Soldiers do in Taking a Country or Kingdom in Which They are Strongly Opposed.—Matt 11:12. Nichols, 2018.
• Sinners Under Means of Grace Are Ordinarily More Hardened Than the Heathen.—Matt 11:21. Nichols, 2003.
• Divine Husbandman (On the Parable of the Sower and the Seed): Matthew 13:3–7. Minkema, MP, II, 2012.
• Sudden Conversions Are Very Often False.—Matt 13:5. Nichols, 2018. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• The Wicked Hereafter Will Be Cast into a Furnace of Fire (1733).—Matt 13:41–42. SDG, Repent, 2005; Nichols, 2006.
• So None Ought to Come into the Christian Church but Good Men.—Matt 13:47–50. McMullen, 2003.
• Fish Out of Their Element (The Parable of the Net).—Matthew 13:47–50. Minkema, MP, III, 2012.
• There is a Great Difference Between Converted and Unconverted Men.—Matthew 15:26. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• ’Tis in Itself More Rational to Suppose that Wicked Men Should Be Most Extremely and Eternally Miserable in Another World.—Matthew 23:33. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• True and False Christians: (On the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins) (1737).—Matthew 25:1. Minkema, MP, I, 2012.
• The Eternity of Hell Torments (1739).—Matt 25:46. Nichols, 2006.

Mark

• The Gadarenes Loved Their Swine Better Than Jesus Christ.—Mark 5:16–17. Nichols, 2003.
• The Torments of Hell Will Be Eternal.—Mark 9:44. SDG, Repent, 2005. Nichols, 2006.
• What is Meant by Believing in Christ?—Mark 16:15–16. McMullen, 2003.

Luke

• That the Son of God by Appearing in Our Nature Laid a Glorious Foundation for Peace to the Inhabitants of This World.—Luke 2:14. McMullen, 2004.
• All the Pleasure or Comfort that Wicked Men Will Ever Have They Have in This Life.—Luke 6:24. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• God Is Kind to the Unthankful and the Evil.—Luke 6:35. SDG, 2004.
• That If we Would be Christ’s Disciples it is Necessary that we should Deny Ourselves.—Luke 9:23. Nichols, 2018.
• That Hearing and Keeping the Word of God Renders a Person More Blessed Than Any Other Privilege That Ever God Bestowed Than Any of the Children of Men.—Luke 11:27–28. McMullen, 2004.
• The Worst Punishments Men Can Inflict Are as Nothing in Comparison of Damnation.—Luke 12:5. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• Wicked Men Will Hereafter Have This to Aggravate Their Woe, that They Shall See Many of All Kinds and Nations Admitted into Glory, While They Themselves are Thrust Out.—Luke 13:28–29. SDG, Repent, 2005.
• The Spiritual Blessings of the Gospel Are Fitly Represented by a Feast.—Luke 14:16. Kistler (NHP), 2024; WJE 14, 1997.
• Pressing into the Kingdom of God.—Luke 16:16. Nichols, 2001.
• The Torments of Hell are Exceedingly Great.—Luke 16:24. SDG, Repent, 2005; Nichols, 2006.
• Wicked Men in Hell Will Remember How Things Were with Them Here in this World.—Luke 16:25. SDG, Repent, 2005; Nichols, 2006.
• The Wicked in Hell Will be Sensible What a Happy State the Saints are in in Heaven.—Luke 16:25. SDG, Repent, 2005; Nichols, 2006.
• God Doesn’t Thank Men for Doing Those Things He Commands Them.—Luke 17:9. SDG, 2004.
• The Lord’s Supper Ought to Be Kept Up and Attended in Remembrance of Christ.—Luke 22:19. Kistler (NHP), 2024.

John

• Full of Grace and Truth.—John 1:16? [John 1:14]. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• The New Birth.—John 3:3. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• There is an Answerableness Between the Greatness of the Misery of Hell and the Happiness of Heaven.—John 3:16. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• That Wicked Men Are Children of the Devil.—John 8:44. Nichols, 2006.
• Unless Persons Believe in Jesus Christ They Shall Never See Eternal Life.—John 3:36a. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• He that Doesn’t Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Wrath of God Abides on Him.—John 3:36b. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• All Divine Blessings Are as Much in and through Christ as If They Were a Feast Provided by His Flesh That Was Given for Us.—John 6:51. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• Christ the Example of Ministers (An ordination sermon preached on June 28, 1749).—John 13:15–16. SDG, 1997.
• Even As I Have Kept My Father’s Commandments.—John 15:10. McMullen, 2004.

Acts

• Unbelievers Condemn the Glory and Excellency of Christ (Preached in May, 1736).—Acts 4:11. SDG, 1997.
• A Man May Eternally Undo Himself in One Thought of His Heart.—Acts 8:20–22. Nichols, 2003; SDG, 2004.
• That Particular Repentance is Necessary to Salvation.—Acts 8:22. Nichols, 2003.
• A Natural Condition Is a Dreadful Condition.—Acts 16:29, 30. Nichols, 2001.
• When the Spirit of God Has Been Remarkably Poured Out on a People, a Thorough Reformation of Those Things That Before Were Amiss Amongst Them Ought to Be the Effect of It.—Acts 19:19. McMullen, 2003.
• Sinners delaying and putting off the great concern of their souls till a supposed more convenient season.—Acts 24:25. Grosart, 1865/SDG 1992.

Romans

• God Sometimes Punishes Sin by Giving Men Up to Sin.—Rom 1:24. Nichols, 2018.
• Unawakened Sinners Heap Up to Themselves Wrath Against the Day of Wrath as Men Are Wont to Heap Up Treasures.—Romans 2:5a. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017; Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners.—Rom 3:19. Nichols, 2001.
• The Grace of God in the New Covenant Eminently Appears in That We Are Justified Only by Faith.—Rom 4:16. SDG, 2006.
• Peace with God.—Romans 5:1. Grosart, 1865/SDG, 1992.
• There Never Was Any Love That Could Be Paralleled with the Dying Love of Christ.—Rom 5:7–8. McMullen, 2003.
• Natural Men Are God’s Enemies.—Rom 5:10. Nichols, 2001.
• It Is One Design That God Has Upon His Heart to Show How Terrible His Wrath Is.—Rom 9:22. SDG, Repent, 2005.
• Though a People that Live under Means are Wont in General to Seek and Hope for Salvation yet ’tis the Election Only that Obtain and the Rest are Blinded.—Rom 11:7. Nichols, 2018.

1 Corinthians

• Christians Have Communion with Christ.—1 Cor 1:9. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• Don’t Lead Others into Sin.—1 Corinthians 8:13. SDG, Rising, 2005.
• The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper Is the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ.—1 Cor 10:16[a]. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• The Thing Designed in the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper Is the Communion of Christians in the Body and Blood of Christ.—1 Cor 10:16[b]. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• The Lord’s Supper Was Instituted as a Solemn Representation and Seal of the Holy and Spiritual Union of Christ’s People Have with Christ and One Another.—1 Cor 11:17. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• Persons Ought to Examine Themselves of Their Fitness Before They Presume to Partake of the Lord’s Supper.—1 Cor 11:28–29. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper Is A Very Sacred Ordinance.—1 Cor 11:29. Kistler (NHP), 2024; WJE 17, 1999.
• Christ Exalted (Preached in August, 1738).—1 Cor 15:25–26. SDG, 1997.
• The Perpetuity and Change of the Sabbath.—1 Cor 16:1–2. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• It Is Crime Enough to Render Any Man a Cursed Person, Not to Love Jesus Christ.—1 Cor 16:22. SDG, 2006.

2 Corinthians

• Ministries and Their People Most Meet One Another Before Christ’s Tribunal on the Day of Judgment.—2 Cor 1:14. SDG, 2006.
• Persons Ought Not to Rest Ignorant and Unresolved About Their Own State Whether They Be Real Christians or No.—2 Cor 13:5. Nichols, 2001.

Galatians

• The Gospel No Encouragement to Sin (1731–32).—Gal 2:17. Minkema, 2019.
• Christ’s Particular Respect to Every Believer in His Work of Redemption (1728–29).—Gal 2:20. Minkema, 2019.
• The Holy Spirit the Sum of the Blessings Purchased for Us by Christ (1746).—Gal 3:13. Minkema, 2019.
• Christ and Believers One Mystical Person (1746).—Gal 3:16. Minkema, 2019.
• Saving Faith Worketh by Love (1751).—Gal 5:6. Minkema, 2019.
• Only that Sort of Faith that Works by Love Avails Anything before God (1728).—Gal 5:6. Minkema, 2019.
• Flesh and Spirit (1745).—Gal 5:17. Minkema, 2019.

Ephesians

• Corrupt Communication (For a meeting of the young people, July 1740).—Ephesians 4:29. SDG, Rising, 2005.

Philippians

• ’Tis No Matter What We Go Through in Order to Salvation So That We Do But Obtain It at Last.—Philippians 3:11. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.

Colossians

• Christ Is the Christian’s All.—Col 3:11. SDG, 2004.

1 Thessalonians

• In True Conversion Men’s Bodies Are in Some Respect Changed as Well as Their Souls.—1 Thess 5:23. McMullen, 2003.

1 Timothy

• Jesus Christ Is the Great Mediator and Head of Union in Whom All Elect Creatures in Heaven and Earth Are United to God and to One Another.—1 Tim 2:5. McMullen, 2003.
• God Is a Being Possessed of the Most Absolutely Perfect Happiness.—1 Tim 6:15. Kistler (NHP), 2024.

2 Timothy

• Wicked Men are the Devil’s Captives.—2 Timothy 2:26. Kistler (NHP), 2016/2022.
• The Scripture is the Word of God.—2 Timothy 3:16. Grosart 1865/SDG 1992.
• Men Are Exceeding Prone to Bring Their Principles to Agree With Their Lusts (1738).—2 Tim 4:3. Nichols, 2003.

Hebrews

• Jesus Christ Is the Shining Forth of the Father’s Glory.—Heb 1:3. McMullen, 2004.
• Christ Is a Person of Transcendent Worthiness in the Sight of God.—Heb 1:5. Kistler (NHP), 2024.
• Jesus Christ is Both the Only Priest and Sacrifice by which Eternal Redemption is Obtained for Believers.—Heb 9:12. Nichols, 2018.
• God Is a Consuming Fire.—Heb 12:29. Nichols, 2018.
• Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever (Preached in April, 1738).—Heb 13:8. SDG, 1997.

James

• Those Who Love Christ Shall Receive of Him a Crown of Life.—James 1:12. McMullen, 2004.
• ’Tis Impossible That God Should Be Under Any Temptation to Do Anything That Is Evil.—James 1:13. McMullen, 2003.
• That God Is the Father of Lights.—Jam 1:17. McMullen, 2003.
• True Grace Distinguished from the Experience of Devils.—James 2:19. Nichols, 2001.

1 Peter

• If Persons Have Ever Tasted the Sweetness of the Word and the Grace of Christ, They Will Be Longing for More of It.—1 Peter 2:2–3. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• It Would Have Been Better for Some Persons If Christ Never Had Come into the World to Save Sinners.—1 Pet 2:8. McMullen, 2004.
• That a Christian Spirit Is of Great Price in the Sight of God.—1 Pet 3:4. McMullen, 2004.
• Those wicked men who lived before the flood, and went to hell in Noah’s time, are there still.—1 Peter 3:19, 20. Grosart 1865/SDG 1992.

2 Peter

• Men’s Addiction to Sin Is No Excuse, but an Aggravation.—2 Pet 2:14. SDG, 2004.

1 John

• The Spirit of the True Saints Is a Spirit of Divine Love.—1 John 4:16. McMullen, 2004.

Revelation

• Nothing Else Is Required of Us in Order to Our Having an Interest in Christ, but That We Should Find It in Our Hearts to Be Willing That Christ Should Be Ours and We His.—Rev 3:20. McMullen, 2003.
• The Excellency of Christ (Preached in August, 1736).—Rev 5:5–6. SDG, 1997.
• Christ Was Worthy of His Exaltation upon the Account of His Being Slain.—Rev 5:12. McMullen, 2004.
• Wicked Men Will Hereafter Wish to Be Turned to Nothing and Forever Cease to Be that They May Escape the Wrath of God.—Rev. 6:15–16. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• Praise One of the Chief Employments of Heaven (Preached on November 7, 1734).—Rev 14:2. SDG, 1997.
• The End of the Wicked Contemplated by the Righteous (1733).—Rev 18:20. Nichols, 2006.
• ’Tis Not Inconsistent With the Attributes of God to Punish Ungodly Men With a Misery That Is Eternal.—Rev. 19:2–3. Kistler (NHP), 2014/2017.
• In Hell Is Inflicted the Fierceness of the Wrath of a Being That Is Almighty.—Rev 19:15. McMullen, 2004; Nichols, 2006.