The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

<p><strong style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction. David Brainerd was such a man.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd. - John Wesley.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>David Brainerd</strong><span style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)> (1718 - 1747) missionary to the Native Americans has long been admired for his single-minded devotion to God and to mission. This book edited and annotated by Jonathan Edwards has inspired missionaries and preachers including John Wesley Henry Martyn William Carey Jim Elliot and Adoniram Judson. Indeed Wesley Brainerd's contemporary urges Let every preacher read carefully over </span><em style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>The Life of David Brainerd</em>. <em>The Life and Diary of David Brainerd</em> is the main source of information we have on Brainerd and is the cause of his posthumous fame after only 29 years of life.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>Jonathan Edwards</strong><span style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)> was America's greatest theologian. Brainerd knew Edwards well and suffering from tuberculosis spent his few</span> last months in Edwards' home.  Edwards so impressed by Brainerd stopped work on his treatise <em>Freedom of the Will</em> to prepare <strong><em>The Life and Diary of David Brainerd: With Notes and Reflections.</em></strong> <strong><em> </em></strong>Remarkably it is the eminent Jonathan Edwards' most reprinted book.</p>