But now, he says, ‘I was brought to that new sense of things’, to an ‘inward, sweet delight in God and divine things. One year later, however, in the spring of 1721, something far more important happened.Įdwards at this time was already religious but despite ‘repeated resolutions’ it was not a religion that had changed his heart or humbled his natural pride. Edwards graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1720, and it was decided he would stay a further two years to become a Master of Arts. ![]() The Head was one of Edwards’ many cousins, Elisha Williams. Two years later the School settled at New Haven and became Yale College. When he was not quite thirteen he was sent down river to the Collegiate School of Connecticut. Jonathan Edwards would appear to have had a healthy and happy childhood, spent largely in female company. Of the larger family circle, his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, was pastor of the largest church in New England, some thirty-five miles away at Northampton. His mother, Esther, had eleven children-four girls, then Jonathan, to be followed by six more girls, and all of them six feet in height. His father, Timothy Edwards, was pastor of the local church, a good student and preacher, as well as a part-time school teacher and farmer. He spent his first twelve years in his parents’ home at East Windsor, close to the Connecticut river. ![]() Some were well established, others were small and on the frontiers of the wilderness. Jonathan Edwards was born a little over seventy years after the first Puritan settlement of New England and, at the time of his birth, October 5, 1703, there were some 130 towns in the colony.
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