Quotes:Edwards, Jonathan

Zirkoff, Boris

Edwards, Jonathan. American theologian, b. Oct. 5, 1703, at East Windsor, Conn.; d. at Princeton, March 22, 1758. Precocious from earliest years, he was graduated from Yale College at 17 at the head of his class. Became in 1729 Pastor of the largest and wealthiest Presbyterian congregation at Northampton, Mass. After an initial success, his peculiar Calvinistic views and theories, particularly with regard to the freedom of will and damnation, aroused strong opposition and he was dismissed in 1748. For some years after, he did missionary work among the Housatonic Indians and wrote his chief work, The Freedom of the Will. In 1757 he became for a brief time President of the College of New Jersey, but soon died from smallpox.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 528