Although the two Edwardses were in various partic- j ulars dissimilar, yet in many respects there was a !
striking resemblance between them. Dr. Samuel Mil. ler, of Princeton, says "the son greatly resembled his venerable father in metaphysical acuteness, in ar- dent piety, and in the purest exemplariness of Chris- tian deportment." The son, like the ftitlier, was a tutor in the college where he had been a student ; was first ordained over a prominent church in the town where his maternal grandfather had been the pastor ; was dismissed on account of his doctrinal opinions ; was afterwards the minister of a retired parish ; was then president of a college, and died soon after his in- auguration. His memoir states that both the father and the son preached on the first Sabliath of the Jan- uary preceding their death from the text, " This vear thou Shalt die." (E. A. P.)
Edwards, Justin, D.D., an eminent Congrega- tional minister, was born at Westhampton, Mass., April 25, 1787. He graduated at Williams College 1810 ; en- tered the Theological Seminary in Andover March, 1811, and was installed pastor of the South Church in the same place December 2, 1812. In 1825 he was one of the sixteen who founded the "American Society for the Promotion of Temperance." He was installed pastor of the Salem-Street Church, Boston, January 1, 1828, but resigned August 20, 1829, and entered 'the service of the American Temperance Society as secre- tarj'. His zeal, wisdom, and activity contributed, per- haps more than anj^ other agency, to diffuse the prin- ciples of the Temperance reform in the United States. He was elected Professor of Theology in the Seminary in New York in Februarj', 1836, and President of the Seminary at Andover, 1837. He accepted the latter appointment. In 1842 he was chosen secretary of the newlj'-formed American and Foreign Sabbath Union, and in this service he spent several laborious and emi- nentl}^ useful years^ He died July 24, 1853. He pub- lished An Address before the Rhetorical Society in the Theological Seminary at Andover (1824) : — An Address at the laying of the corner-stone of the new meeting-house in Andover (1826): — A Letter to the friends of Temper- ance in Mass. (183G) : — Permanent Temperance Docu- ments, a series of papers (1830-36) : — Permanent Doc- uments, a series of papers on The Sabbath; and numer- ous tracts for the American Tract Society, and a com- pendious Commentary (N. T. and part of O. T. ; Amer. Tract Society). His life was full of varied but always consecrated labor, and few men have contrilmted more largely to promote Christian ethics in America by laj'- ing their foundation wisely in true religion. See Ilal- leck, Life of Justin Edwards (Amer. Tract Society) ; and Sprague, Annals, ii, 572.
Edwards, Morgan, a Baptist minister, was born in Trevetliin parish, Wales, May 9,1722. He com- menced preaching in 1738, supplied for seven j-ears a small congregation in Boston, Lincolnshire, and thence removed to Cork, Ireland, where he was pastor for nine j'ears. After spending one year more at Eye, in Sus- sex, he emigrated to America, and in Mdy, 1761, be- came pastor of the Baptist Church in Philadelphia. In 1772 he removed to Newark, Del., and preached to sev- eral vacant churches until the commencement of the Revolution. After the war he delivered lectures on divinity in Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylva- nia, as well as in New Jersey, Delaware, and New En- gland. He died Januarj' 28, 1795. Besides various manuscripts, he left behind him forty-two volumes of sermons. He pulilished a number of occasional ser- mons, addresses, pamphlets, etc. — Sprague, Jwk. vi, 82.
Edwards, Thomas, an English divine, was edu- cated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he passed A.B. in 1G05, a'nd A.M. in 1609. He did not became a Nonconformist, but j'et was always a Puritan in theology. " I never," says he, "had a canonical coat, declined sul)seription for many years before the Par- liament, though I practised the old conformity ; much less did I bow to the altar and at the name of Jesus,"
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etc. He was lecturer at Tlcrtfonl, and afterwards in I London. When the l.oii;^ Parliament declared against Charles I he sided with them, but when the Independ- ents came into power he opposed them with great vir- ulence both by v.riting and acting. He published I^easons against the Independent Govei-nment of particu- lar Conyreyntkms (1641, 4to) : — Antapotogia, or a full ansicer to the apologetical Narration of Mr. Goodicyn, J/r. Xye, Jfr. Sgmpso-n, Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Bridge, Members of the Assembly of Divines, wherein are harv- dled many of the Controversies of these Times (1G44, 4to : the chief design of this work we learn from himself, in the preface to it: "This Antapologia," says he, "I liere recommend to you for a true glass to behold the faces of Presbytery and Independency in, with the beauty, order, and strength of the one, and the deform- itj', disorder, and weakness of the other") : — Gangroe- na, or a Catalogue and discovery of many of the Errors, Heresies, Blasphemies, and pernicious Practices of the Sectaries of this Time (1645, 4to) : — Gangroena, part ii (1646, 4to) : — Gangrcena^ part iii : — The casting doicn of the last and strongest hild of Satan, or a Treatise against Toleration (i)art i, 1647) : — Of the particular Visibility of the Church: — A Treatise of the Civil Power in Ecclesiastica's, and of Suspension from the Lord's Supper. The time and place of his death are un- known. He professed himself " a plain, open-hearted man, who hated tricks, reserves, and designs ; zealous for the Assembly of Divines, the Directory, the use of the Lord's Prayer, singing of psalms, etc., and so ear- nest for what he took to be the truth that he was usu- ally called in Cambridge j'oung Luther." — Kippis, Biog. Brit. vol. v.