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Theodosia, the first gentlewoman of her time
Theodosia the first gentlewoman of her time Author:Charles Felton Pidgin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE REVEREND JONATHAN EDWARDS FEW clergymen, or even men, have had more written about them than the subject of this chapter. That he was the ma... more »ternal great-grandfather of Theodosia demands that his life and character should receive ample treatment in this volume. It is not with the chronology of his life that we are principally interested. It is with what he was and what he did more than with when he did it. His biographers, following tradition and custom, have said the same things over and over again, and usually in the same way. Scores of books have been examined, and in but few of them has there been found any novelty or variety in expression. In preparing this chapter, the rule has been followed to incorporate what was salient in many, rather than to make too copious extracts from one authority. The following biography of Mr. Edwards was published about six years after his death. Those that have appeared since, although written in accordance with the predilections of the different authors, have contained but little additional in the way of fact. For that reason it is thought best to rely upon the earliest published work (9). Mr. Jonathan Edwards was born October 5, 1703, at Windsor, a town in Connecticut. His father was the Rev. Mr. Timothy Edwards,minister of the gospel on the East side of the Connecticut River, in Windsor. He began to reside and preach at Windsor in November, 1694, but was not ordained till July, 1698. He died Jan. 27, 1758, in the 89th year of his age, about two months before the death of his son Jonathan. He was in the work of the ministry above 59 years. From his first beginning to reside and preach there, to his death, are above 63 years, and he was able to attend to the work of the ministry and preach constantly till within a few...« less