Edwards, Jonathan

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1. An American clergyman of the eighteenth century; a leader in the religious revivals of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening. Edwards, an emotional preacher, emphasized the absolute power of God. His most famous sermon, the harrowing “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” compares sinners to spiders dangled over a flame.

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“The auction includes paintings, works on paper, fine prints, and sculpture by such important African-American artists as Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Melvin Edwards, Jonathan Green, and Faith Ringgold.”

From Architectural Digest • Aug. 31, 2015

Edwards, Jonathan, his use of the word "sweetness," xxxix.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

Edwards, Jonathan, referred to, 22.Election, in Paul, 116; a choice for service, 116.

From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by King, Henry Churchill

Edwards, Jonathan; biographical note on, IX, 44; on liberty and moral agencies, 44.Eliot,

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Edwards, Jonathan: allusions, 16, 51; the atmosphere changed, 414.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell