MEMOIRS OF THE C REV. JONATHAN EDWARDS, A.M. CHAP. I. Mr. Edwards's Birth and Parentage, Education and Entrance on the Ministry. PRESIDENT EDWARDS was one of those men of whom it is not easy to speak with justice, without seeming, at least, to border on the marvellous, and to incur the guilt of adulation. The christian biographer labours under a difficulty, in describing the cha racters of extraordinary men, which the writers of other lives are but too generally allowed to forget; for he is bound so to represent actions and motives, as to remind his readers, that the uncommon excellencies of a character flow entirely from the bounty of heaven, for the wisest and best purposes, and are not the result of natural vigour and Otherwise, instead of placing acumen. Ᏼ . 210. g. |