Voices and influences
David Brainerd
David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – January 9, 1747) was a Colonial American Presbyterian missionary to Native Americans (Seneca and Delaware peoples of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) during the First Great Awakening.
Summary
This site quotes David Brainerd 2 times across 2 books, and lists 2 works.
- Lived 1718 to 1747.
- Quoted here most in Romans: 1 of 2.
David Brainerd
- Lived
- 1718 to 1747
- Tradition
- Colonial American Presbyterian
2 of 2 quotations
Own words
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I could not bear that it should be wholly at God's pleasure, to save or damn me, just as he would.
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (ed. Jonathan Edwards), conviction narrative, Chapter I, 1749
Romans 9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? BSB
I found that faith was the sovereign gift of God; that I could not get it as of myself; and could not oblige God to bestow it upon me by any of my performances.
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (ed. Jonathan Edwards), conviction narrative, Chapter I, 1749
Ephesians 2:1–8 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes David Brainerd 2 times across 2 books.
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The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – January 9, 1747) was a Colonial American Presbyterian missionary to Native Americans (Seneca and Delaware peoples of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) during the First Great Awakening. Educated at Yale (expelled before graduation for criticizing a tutor's spiritual state during the Awakening's emotional fervor), he was licensed by the Presbyterian "New Side" and commissioned by the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. He died of tuberculosis at age 29 in Jonathan Edwards's Northampton parsonage. Edwards published An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd (1749) drawn from Brainerd's private diary — one of the most-circulated and most-influential missionary biographies in Christian history. The diary inspired William Carey, Henry Martyn, Jim Elliot, and generations of evangelical missionaries; it remains in continuous print.
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The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
1749, ed. Jonathan Edwards
One of the most-circulated and most-influential missionary biographies in Christian history. Standard text for evangelical missionary-formation. Pastor Marc cataloged among audiobook-library voices.
2 quotations on this site
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Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos
1746
Brainerd's own published account of the 1745 Crossweeksung Delaware revival; primary documentation of the Awakening-era Native American missionary work.
Not quoted on this site yet
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2 quotations across 2 books
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