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• I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

  David Brainerd

  Enemy, Battle, Missionary

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.

  David Brainerd

  Love, Jesus, Blessed

  David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1858). “The Life of David Brainerd ... chiefly taken from his own diary, and other private writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.21

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• Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

  David Brainerd

  Time, Pain, Purpose

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.246

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• O how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused his goodness to pass before me! And how poorly have I answered the vows I made this time twelve-month, to be wholly the Lord's, to be forever devoted to his service! The Lord help me to live more to his glory for the time to come. This has been a sweet, a happy day to me; blessed be God... I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altogether devoted to Him. I wanted to wear out my life in His service, and for His glory.

  David Brainerd

  Sweet, Blessed, Past

  "Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary".

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• Esperaba que mi fatigosa peregrinación por el mundo fuera breve, y que no pasara mucho tiempo antes de que me llevaran a mi hogar celestial y a la casa de mi Padre.

  David Brainerd

  Father, Home, Long

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.113

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• I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

  David Brainerd

  Thinking, Weary

  David BRAINERD (1826). “Life and Journal of the Rev. David Brainerd ... By Jonathan Edwards”, p.233

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• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  David Brainerd

  Inspirational, Sobriety, Firsts

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.491

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• Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, Way, Longing

  David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.291

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• In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the men were in some measure afraid of me; and I discoursed something about sanctifying the sabbath, if possible to solemnize their minds: but when they were at a little distance, they again talked freely about secular affairs. Oh, I thought what a hell it would be, to live with such men to eternity!

  David Brainerd

  Morning, Distance, Men

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.142

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• As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

  David Brainerd

  Congratulations, Taught, Kind

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Alexander Anderson (1854). “The Life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings”, p.252

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• I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

  David Brainerd

  Mercy, Fear God

  David Brainerd (1829). “Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the American Indians”, p.337

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• I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

  David Brainerd

  Long, Conviction, Long Time

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.44

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• A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

  David Brainerd

  Spiritual, Men, Discovery

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.15

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• Mi trastorno ha estado acompañado de varios síntomas de tisis, y a veces he temido que mi gran cambio estuviera cerca; sin embargo, bendito sea Dios, nunca me he asustado, sino que, por el contrario, a veces me he alegrado mucho al ver que se acercaba.

  David Brainerd

  Blessed, Hands, Views

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.391

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• It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

  David Brainerd

  Missionary, Remarkable, Rational

  David Brainerd (1829). “Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the American Indians”, p.480

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• I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

  David Brainerd

  Home, Mercy, Ifs

  Johnathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. Dav. Brainerd”, p.45

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• Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

  David Brainerd

  Night, Soul, Christianity

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.181

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• I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

  David Brainerd

  Retirement, Self, Denial

  David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.304

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• I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

  David Brainerd

  Wife, Boards, Poor

  David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1858). “The Life of David Brainerd ... chiefly taken from his own diary, and other private writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.32

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• Así como los errores más extravagantes fueron recibidos entre los artículos establecidos de su fe, así los vicios más infames obtuvieron en su práctica, y fueron complacidos no sólo con impunidad, sino autorizados por la sanción de sus leyes.

  David Brainerd

  Errors, Law, Practice

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.473

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