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“God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.” – Jonathan Edwards
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“How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?” – Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
(October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) 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" (endorsing the Great Awakening),
as opposed to "Old Lights" (non-revivalists). 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 (Princeton). He was the
grandfather of Aaron Burr, third Vice President of the United States.
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