Jonathan Edwards on Google Books

If you are interested in Jonathan Edwards, Google Books is your friend (I invite you to visit my own google books library, or even subscribe to it via RSS).

First, you can find all ten volumes of Sereno Dwight’s Works of President Edwards, the third attempt ( after Williams and Parsons in 1806 and Austin in 1808 ) to compile his major works:

• Volume 1: Dwight’s biography, the Life of President Edwards, “Farewell Sermon,” Appendix
• Volume 2: Freedom of the Will, Original Sin
• Volume 3: The End for Which God Created the World, Nature of True Virtue, History of the Work of Redemption, Extraordinary Prayer, and the Distinguishing Marks of a Work of a Spirit of God.
• Volume 4: A Faithful Narrative of Surprising Conversions, Thoughts on the Revival, An Humble Inquiry (Qualifications for Communion), and Misrepresentations Corrected (Reply to Williams).
• Volume 5: Religious Affections, Justification by Faith Alone, Pressing into the Kingdom of God, Ruth’s Resolution, The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners, and The Excellency of Christ.
• Volume 6: (Table of Contents) Twenty sermons, and Practical Sermons
• Volume 7: (Table of Contents) Eight sermons and “Miscellanies” on “Theological Matters”
• Volume 8: (Table of Contents) Seventeen “occasional sermons” and “Miscellanies“
• Volume 9: Types of the Messiah, Notes on the Bible
• Volume 10: David Brainerd

Other public domain collections of Edwards’s works are also “published’ on Google Books (the Yale Works are not available in any way through Google Books):

• Cairns, Selections from Early American Authors
• G Fischer, Unpublished Essay of Edwards on the Trinity
• Gardiner, Selected Sermons (also here)
• Grosart, Unpublished Writings (also here)
  
• C Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards: Selections from their Writings

In addition to this, several works important to Edwards himself and his times, that were either influential on Edwards or works to which he responded, are available.

• John Brine, Treatise on Various Subjects
• Charles Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts (important work of a chief opponent to the revivals; see Some Thoughts and RA) (Another [better] reproduction is available at archive.org)
• Chauncy, Wonderful Narrative . . . The French Prophets
• Thomas Chubb, A Collection of Tracts (Chubb is an opponent in Freedom et al)
• Philip Dodderidge, Family Expositor (in part) (vol 2) (influential on Edwards’s interpretation of the Bible; see Blank Bible)
• Theophilus Gale, Court of the Gentiles, vol 3 (cited in “Miscellanies” and the Blank Bible)
• John Gill, Cause of God and Truth (cited in Freedom)
• Francis Hutchenson, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
• Henry More, Account of Virtue (influential in Puritan thought in general; Edwards likely read him in divinity school)
• Henry More, Divine Dialogues
• Thomas Shepard, Parable of Ten Virgins, vol 2 (cited in RA)
• Thomas Shepard, Works vol 1 vol 3
• John Smith, “The Shortness and Vanity of a Pharisaic Righteousness” (the longest citation in RA)
• Solomon Stoddard, The Doctrine of Instituted Churches (Edwards’s maternal grandfather who made an indelible mark on his thought)
• Solomon Stoddard, A Guide to Christ
• Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation (a prominent deist work)
• Isaac Watts, Freedom of Will in God and Creatures (opposed in Freedom) also here

Older studies about or related to Jonathan Edwards, now in the public domain, are also available for full view in Google Books.

• A V G Allen’s biography
• Day, Examination of Freedom of the Will
• Gardiner and Allen’s Retrospect
• Samuel Hopkin’s Life and Character of the Late, Reverend, Learned, and Pious Jonathan Edwards (also here)
• Middleton, Evangelical Biography
• E A Park, “Remarks of Jonathan Edwards on the Trinity” BibSac 1881
• W Walker, Ten New England Leaders (including chapters on Edwards, Chauncy, and Hopkins)
• W Walker, History of Congregationalism

A number of important books about Jonathan Edwards are also offered through Google’s “Limited Preview” option*, including:

• Perry Miller’s biography,
• Marsden’s biography,
• The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards
• The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards
• Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness
• Conrad Cherry’s study
• Gerald McDermott’s One Holy and Happy Society
• Lesser’s Annotated Bibliography

*If you wanted the four volume “Worcester” edition of Edwards’s works (first edited by Austin in 1808 as 8 vols), they are available, but only (at least from my searching) at archive.org. This edition has a scripture index.

• Volume 1 (also 84 MB pdf)
  
• Volume 2 (also 89 MB pdf)
  
• Volume 3 (also 78 MB pdf)
  
• Volume 4 (also 67 MB pdf)

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*Google should not be used as a substitute for your careful reading and study of these materials in their complete form.