OF THE

REV. JONATHAN EDWARDS, A. M.

President of the College in New Jersey.

COMPILED ORIGINALLY

BY SAMUEL HOPKINS, D. D.

REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE EDITORS OF
EDWARDS'S WORKS,

And now first published in a separate Volume, with
numerous verbal Emendations.

BY JOHN HAWKSLEY.

London:

PRINTED FOR JAMES BLACK,

YORK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.

1857. Jerne. bift of

Samuel A. Grees, b

of

Groton.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Preface

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CHAP. I. Mr. Edwards's Birth, Parentage, &c.

CHAP. II. Extracts from his Private Writings..

Sect. 1. His Resolutions

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Sect 2. Extracts from his Diary.............

vii

1

8

9

17

Sect. 3. Account of his Conversion, &c. written by himself. 42

CHAP. III. His general Deportment................

78

CHAP. IV. His Departure from Northampton ....

111

CHAP. V. From his Mission to the Indians until his

Death

167

Sect. 1. His Mission to the Indians at Stockbridge

Sect. 2. His Election to the Presidency of New Jersey

College......

CHAP. VI. His Publications, Manuscripts, &c.

....

ibid.

173

1. Mrs. Edwards's Life and Character...

II. A brief Account of Mrs. Burr.......

III. The Life and Character of Dr. Edwards

PREFACE.

IN the esteem of all the judicious who were well acquainted with him, PRESIdent Edwards* was one of the greatest, best, and most useful men of this age. By his conversation, preaching, and writings, he discovered a remarkable strength of mind, clearness of thought, and depth of penetration.

No one, perhaps, in our day, has been more universally esteemed as an eminently

* There was another valuable writer of the name of Jonathan Edwards, Principal of Jesus College, Cambridge, who published an excellent book, entitled, “ A Preservative against Socinianism," in four Parts, 4to.; the first of which was printed in 1693, and the last in 1703.-By way of distinction, therefore, as well as of deserved respec the subject of these Memoirs is called "President. Edwards."-W.