Jonathan Edwards

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as to finish a master's degree simultaneously.
He was ordained in 1727 and joined his grandfather at the latter's church congregation, then one of the largest and richest in the Massachusetts colony. Jonathan succeeded his grandfather after his death. Jonathan quickly showed his firm belief in Calvinism and the influence of the doctrine of predestination. There were equally firm believers in Arminianism, which opposed Calvinism, in the New England colonies at the time and it was there in 1731 that he delivered his first publicly attacked the doctrine through a sermon, entitled "God Glorified in Man's Dependence." At the same time, he called everyone back to Calvinism (MSN Encarta 2002). His generation was the second of the Puritans, and in comparison with the first generation, which toiled diligently to sow the Gospel seed, his generation had far less fervor for the Faith (Hollinger). He gave a series of the same powerful message in his own church, including his famous "Reality of ...

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entitled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" -- drew people to such ferventness and trembling that those who could not take it even committed suicide. The key verse in the Bible, which he used in this sermon was:

"It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them." (Deuteronomy 32:35)

And such as lines from the sermon as:

"How dreadful is the state of those that are daily and hourly in the danger of this great wrath and infinite misery! But this is the dismal case of every soul in this congregation that has not been born again, however moral and strict, sober and religious, they may ...

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