“O, I love to live on the Brink of Eternity, in my Views and Meditations! This gives me a sweet, awful and reverential Sense and Apprehension of God and divine Things, when I see myself as it were standing before the Judgment-Seat of Christ.” — David Brainerd, Journal entry for October 21, 1742 in Jonathan Edwards, An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel...Chiefly Taken From His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings (1749), p. 48