August 1751

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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What was happening in Jonathan Edwards' life in the summer of 1751? Today, Stephen Nichols describes how Edwards was a missionary to the English and Native American people in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. It is the month of August in the year 2024 and I thought for our episode this week I
0:17.6	would take us to another August and that is the August of 1751. In fact we'll spend this weekend next in August
0:27.6	first 1751 and then in 1752 and we are talking about the life of Jonathan Edwards.
0:35.8	At this moment in the 1750s, Edwards is at Stockbridge.
0:40.7	Back in June of 1750, Jonathan Edwards, clearly the most popular preacher, the most well-known preacher, not only in the colonies, but probably across the Atlantic in old England was dismissed from his church.
0:57.5	He was voted out of his church at North Hampton.
1:00.7	We've dealt with that before and of course there were politics involved but alas
1:05.6	Edwards finds himself needing employment and so he had offers to actually start a
1:11.6	church right there in Northampton of folks who did not agree with the vote.
1:17.2	He was invited to go to Scotland and pastor a church there, but Edwards moved his family to the west to the town of Stockbridge.
1:27.0	Edwards arrives in Stockbridge in the winter of 1751, after a few months he began to realize that not all was well
1:38.4	in terms of the relations between the English who were settled there at Stockbridge and the Native Americans.
1:45.8	And the Native American population in that area of Western Mass consisted of the Mohawks
1:51.7	and also the Mohawks and also the Mohicans and also a tribe of Indians known as the
1:57.3	Brothertons and sometimes all of these were just called the Stock intended to be mission work among these Native Americans.
2:08.8	There were schools that were established funded by missionary societies there in London and as Edwards gets to
2:16.0	Stockbridge and gets deeply involved in the church there and also in the school
2:20.4	there again he begins to realize that all is not well. And he's seeing that the
2:26.2	English were not really exercising their duties to promote the gospel and see the Native Americans grow in their
2:36.3	knowledge of God and his word, but instead, as Edwards is going to come to say in
2:40.6	letters and actually in a very public sermon that they were cheating the Indians
2:46.8	through their trade with them. Well, in August of 1751, Edwards gets invited to deliver a sermon at the signing of a treaty with Mohawks.
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