This final volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards publishes for the first time Edwards’ “Catalogue,” a notebook he kept of books of interest, especially titles he hoped to acquire, and entries from his “Account Book,” a ledger in which he noted books loaned to family, parishioners, and fellow clergy. These two records, along with several shorter documents presented in the volume, illuminat...

This extensive volume covers the final fifteen years of Jonathan Edwards’s preaching and includes some of his greatest sermons, among them the Farewell Sermon to his Northampton congregation. Edwards deals with topics ranging from the spiritual role of youth in the community to the war with the French and their Indian allies.