The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 7Edwards Life of David Brainerd is a rare, almost forgotten document depicting life in pre Revolutionary America during the period when religious enthusiasm swept the colonial frontier. From 1743 to 1747 Brainerd had been a missionary to the Indians. Riding alone, thousands of miles on horseback, he kept a journal of daily events that he continued until the week before he died, at the age of twenty nine, in Edwards house. Published in 1749, the Life of