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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 3: the third and fourth generation (search)
city far on the world's rim, as Masefield says of it, the city whose builder and maker is God. The story of Edwards's career has the simplicity and dignity of tragedy. Born in a parsonage in the quiet Connecticut valley in 1703-the year of John Wesley's birth-he is writing at the age of ten to disprove the doctrine of the materiality of the soul. At twelve he is studying the wondrous way of the working of the spider, with a precision and enthusiasm which would have made him a great natura the same youthful period, glows with a clear unearthly beauty unmatched in any English prose of that century. For twenty-three years he serves the Northampton church, and his sermons win him the rank of the foremost preacher in New England. John Wesley reads at Oxford his account of the great revival of 1735. Whitefield comes to visit him at Northampton. Then, in 1750, the ascetic preacher alienates his church over issues pertaining to discipline and to the administration of the sacrament.