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title: 'David Brainerd on the Brink of Eternity'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-01-05
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-david-brainerd-on-the-brink-of-eternity
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# David Brainerd on the Brink of Eternity

“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**](/authors/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