Sweetly Set on God

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.'

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