Sermons By Jonathan Edwards On The Matthean Parables Divine Husbandman

by Wilson H. Kimnach

"This second volume of Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on teh Matthean Parables contains a previously unpublished series of six sermons by Edwards on Jesus' parable of the Sower and the Seed, as found in Matthew 13:3-7. Edwards preached these sermons in 1740 immediatly dollowing the visit of George Whitefield to Edwards' church in Northampton, Massachusetts, in October of the that year. Not only does this series have a historical significance for its place in the Great Awakening, but it contains important pronouncements on the preacher's craft and the hearer's responsibilities. These sermons...