The first 13 or so volumes of the Yale edition has material that was available elsewhere in other editions. But after that the material is such that it was not available before.

When Edwards died in 1758, it seems that his sermon notes and writings were given as keepsakes to relatives across New England. Then, in 1901, the family decided that it should all be brought back to a central location, which was Yale University.

In the 1950's Perry Miller began the project of publishing Edwards, with the hope that everything of his would be in print by 2003, the 300 year anniversary of his birth. That did not happen, of course, but we are privileged to have so much of it now that we should be grateful.

Yale has done us a great service in bringing into print so many things we could never have had before. Also, William Nichols of International Outreach has done several such volumes. Broadman Holman did two volumes of unpublished material. And Soli Deo Gloria published 7 volumes of previously unpublished sermons by Edwards.

The Northampton Press just made available Edwards's "Sermons on the Lord's Supper," comprised of sermons that had not been published before.

One can only imagine what Edwards would have produced if the computer had been invented in his lifetime!

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Dr. Don Kistler