Edwards, Jonathan
theologian, author, was born Oct. 5, 1703, in East Windsor, Conn. From 1751 to 1758 he served as missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, and the last month of his life was president of the college of New Jersey, now Princeton university. His chief work is the celebrated Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will, a masterpiece of acute, precise, and original thinking. His other works include Notes on the Mind and Natural Science; The Religious Affections; Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit; Nature of True Virtue; God's Last End in the Creation; Treatise on Grace; Doctrine of Original Sin Defended; Inquiry into the Qualifications for Communion; Thoughts for the Revival of Religion; History of the Redemption; and Life of David Brainerd. He died March 22, 1758, in Princeton, N. J.