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Sweetly Set on God introduces readers to the life and journal writings of David Brainerd (1718–1747), best remembered for his missionary work among the American Indians. Dustin Benge begins by presenting the events of Brainerd’s short life and the intense personal spiritual piety that undergirded his pioneering missionary work. Then, in fifty-one excerpts drawn from Brainerd’s journal, readers will discover his evangelical humiliation, his understanding that God had altered his sinful human nature, his sensitivity to sin, and his holiness of life. Read this book and come to view Brainerd as Jonathan Edwards, his biographer, did: as “a remarkable instance of true and eminent Christian piety in heart and practice.”

Table of Contents:
The Piety of David Brainerd—Dustin W. Benge 
Section One: Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness
1. Seeking Assurance
2. The Insufficiency of All Duties
3. A New Inward Apprehension
4. Full Assurance of His Favor
5. Hungering and Thirsting
Section Two: May I Daily Be More and More Conformed to Thee
6. Humble and Resigned to God
7. A Sweet Day Coming
8. Farewell, Vain World
9. Christian Friends
10. Incessant Prayer
Section Three: I Must Be Dependent on God
11. Sweet Comfort
12. Friends
13. Conformed to God
14. Weaned from the World
Section Four: Distressed for the Interest of Zion
15. The Eternal World
16. Spiritual Conflicts
17. Access to the Throne of Grace
18. Go Forth after God
Section Five: The Important Trust Committed to Me
19. Mortification of Sin
20. Sweet Repose and Rest in God
21. Improvement of All Time
22. I’ll Go to Immortality
23. My Soul Breathed after God
24. Spiritual Deadness
25. Oh, for Divine Grace!
26. Sweet Meditations
27. Dead to the World
28. Vile and Unworthy
29. Ordination
Section Six: Much Assisted in Preaching
30. Bow the Heavens
31. Lift Up My Heart
32. Assisted in Preaching
33. Rejoicing Soul
34. Perfect in Holiness
35. A Sweet, Melting Season
Section Seven: God Has Inclined Their Hearts to Hear
36. Better than Life
37. A Sweet Season
38. Obtaining Help from God
39. Sweet and Solemn Frame
40. Laboring for God
41. Comfortable Frame of Soul
42. Liberty in Prayer
43. Prayer Turned to Praise
44. Heartless Frame of Mind
Section Eight: That God Might Be Glorified
45. Extreme Weakness
46. Freedom in Devotion
47. Begging Deliverance
48. Exceeding Precious
49. Centered in God
50. The Burden of All My Cry
51. Sweetly Set on God

Series Description

Profiles in Reformed Spirituality is a series of books designed to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of particular Christians with selected passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketch and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the treated person’s contribution to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through works of those people treated in this series. Under the guidance of series editors Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin, Profiles in Reformed Spirituality promises to provide a valuable primer to our rich Reformed heritage.

Editor

Dustin W. Benge is the editor for Expositor Magazine and the director of operations for OnePassion Ministries. He is the editor of Lifting Up Our Hearts: 150 Prayers of John Calvin and A Journey Toward Heaven: Daily Devotions from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards. He and his wife, Molli, live in Mobile, Alabama.

Endorsements 

“In every era of church history, God raises up those He uses for His glory and the advance of the gospel. David Brainerd is one of those men greatly used by God in his generation and beyond. Not well known during his short life, Brainerd has emerged from the shadows for future generations in Jonathan Edwards’s biographical account of his life. This book, compiled by Dustin Benge, gives us all access to an otherwise daunting work. As you read you will learn something of the deep spirituality of Brainerd and what he can teach us today about how to follow Christ on the path of holiness.” — Steven J. Lawson, President, OnePassion Ministries, Dallas 

“One man influenced Jonathan Edwards, John and Charles Wesley, and William Carey, as well as countless others. That man was David Brainerd. He was a missionary. He famously got kicked out of Yale for telling one of his professors a chair has more of the Spirit of God than the professor did. And he never made it to his thirtieth birthday. What drew these stalwarts to Brainerd? That’s easy—his piety. Beware of this book and the piety of David Brainerd. It is contagious.”  — Stephen J. Nichols, President of Reformation Bible College and Chief Academic Officer of Ligonier Ministries