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THE Life and Character Of the late reverend
JON AT:H AN EDWARDS,
President of the College at New-Jersey,
Together with a Number of his
SERMONS O N Various important
SUBJECTS. '
jf*rintcd
and Sold by S. Kneeland, opposite Probate-Office in Queen-Street.
to th
LI F E OF THE Late reverend, learned and pious
JONATHAN EDWARDS,
Some Time Mi n i s t e r ot the Gospel xNorthampton in New-England, and
then Missionary to the
I N D I A N s ac StoMridge. ind after that President of New-Jersey College.
Who departed this Life at Princeton, March 22. 1 758.
in the 55th. Year of his
Age.
*< The sweet Remembrance of the Just " Shall flourioi when he steeps in Dud.
N E E L A N D. opposite
Printed and Sold by S. K the Probate-Office,
Queen- Street.
M,DCC,LXV.
The P R E F A C K PRESIDENT JEO/F T DS, in the efleemofall the judicious {who were well acquainted with h'tm either personally, or by his writings, was one of the and mod useful of men, that have greaieft bed lived in this age.
He discover'* d himself to he one of the greatest of di« vines, by his converfati on ypr caching and writings :One
of remarkable Jlrength of mind cleamefs of thought, and depth of penetration, who well under/lood, and was able, above mofi others, to vindicate the great do rines of chriflianity, And one perhaps has been in our day, more universally esteemed and acknowledged to be a bright chriflian, an eminently good man. His love to God and man ; his zeal for God and his cause ; his up> righhiefs, humility self denial, and weanednefs from, ,
the world ; his ctofe walk with God ; his con/cienti' ous, conflant and universal obedience, in all e:xa6i and
ways of living : In one word, the goodness, the holine/s of hs hearty haj been as evideiit andconjpi*
holy
cuous, as the uncommon greatness and Jlrength of his
under(landing. And that this ditlinguijhed light ha not sh one in vain, there are a cloud of witnejfes, God wh$ gave him his great talents, led him into a way cf improving them, both by preaching and zvriting, which has d ubttefs proved the means of converting many fr on the error of their ways ; and ofgreatly promoting the
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