While completing his preparation for the ministry, Jonathan Edwards wrote seventy resolutions that governed the rest of his life - resolutions about the use of time, the pursuit of holiness, the examination of his own motives, and living every hour as he would wish to have lived it at the last. About twenty years later he wrote to Deborah Hatheway, a young woman recently converted in a nearby town, with practical advice on the Christian life.

These two short works are gathered here with an introduction by Stephen J. Nichols, who sets them in the context of Edwards' life and of the awakening in which he ministered. The resolutions are bracing rather than comfortable, and the letter shows the same man writing gently to a beginner. A small volume that has long been used for personal devotion, for discipling new believers, and as an entry point into Edwards.