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Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Like most of the Puritans, he held to the Reformed theology. His colonial followers later distinguished themselves from other Congregationalists as "New Lights" , as opposed to "Old Lights" . Edwards is widely regarded as "one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians". Edwards' theological work is broad in scope, but he was rooted in Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Edwards delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a classic of early American literature, during another revival in 1741, following George Whitefield's tour of the Thirteen Colonies. Edwards is well known for his many books, The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, which inspired thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals still read today. Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey . He was the grandfather of Aaron Burr, third Vice President of the United States.

✵ 5. October 1703 – 22. March 1758   •   Other names جوناثان إدواردز, Ҷонатан Эдвардс, جاناتان ادواردز, Ionathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards Quotes

“Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.”

Jonathan Edwards

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 396.

Love , Life , Business , Heart

“Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.”

Jonathan Edwards

Diary (1723).

Pleasure

“The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.”

Jonathan Edwards

"The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), from the notebook The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature (published 1948).

World , Beauty

“A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.”

Jonathan Edwards

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 106.

Heart

“This dictate of common sense.”

Jonathan Edwards book The Freedom of the Will

The Freedom of the Will (1754).

Sense

“A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.”

Jonathan Edwards book The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners

The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners (1734).

“When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.”

Jonathan Edwards

Diary (7 July 1724).

Falseness

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Jonathan Edwards

-Romans iv. 5. The following things may be noted in this verse:...That justification respects a man as ungodly. This is evident by these words,—that justifieth the ungodly; which cannot imply less, than that God, in the act of justification, has no regard to any thing in the person justified, as godliness, or any goodness in him; but that immediately before this act, God beholds him only as an ungodly creature...
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)

Faith