I know one man, currently working on a book on the preaching of JE, who is very happy to have virtually the whole of Edwards sermon notes transcribed (or in process) in the Yale edition. For his research, he was even given access to pre-publication sermon transcription notes for volumes not even in print at the time.

By the way, the fact is that Edwards continually got "better" as a preacher, as do most studious men of the cloth. There is a myth (largely grown up around reports of "Sinners in the Hands...") that Edwards was a bore and a monotone. How anyone could look at the "jottings" (literally, scraps of paper, and fragments of sentences, thoughts) and think he was "reading", especially as the years went by, just shows prejudice. He grew in the pulpit, and in the process became more extemporaneous. His printed sermons were obviously prepared for publication: written out, and edited.

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Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI


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