EdAwards, Thomas, D.D., a learned Arminian divine, born at Coventry, England, in 1729 ; entered Clare Hall, Cambridge (of which .he became fellow), in 1747 ; master of the Free School, and rector of St. John the Baptist, Coventrj^ in 1758 ; vicar of Nunea- ton, AVarwickshire, in 1770; and died in 1785. His principal writings are, (1.) The Doctrine of irresistible Grace proved to have no Foundation in the Wiitings of the Xew Testament (Camb. 1759, 8vo) : — (2.) Prolegom- ena in libros veteris Testamenti poeticos (Cantab. 1762. 8vo).
Ed'wards, Timothy, a Congregational minister, was born jMay 14, 1669, at Hartford, Conn. He grad- uated at Harvard College July 4, 1691, and was or- dained May, 1694, as pastor in East Windsor, which relation he sustained until his death, Jan. 27, 1758. Mr. Edwards was father of the distinguished Jonathan Edwards. He published but one sermon {Election Ser- mon, 1732). — Sprague, Annuls, i, 230.
Edwy, surnamed the Fair, eldest son of king Ed- mund, succeeded his uncle Eldred as king of England in 955, while his brother Edgar became viceroy of ]\Iercia. Edwy had married Alfriga, the daughter of a noble matron, and was affectionately attached to his young wife. The monks, at the head of whom were Dunstan and archbi.^hop C)do, had, during the reign of Eldred, exerted a great influence at the court ■ but the young king rejected their councils, and this appears to have made them jealous of Alfriga, believ- ing her to be the cause of this change ; and when, on the occasion of his coronation, the king left his court for a time, Dunstan, who had wat(iie<l for an opportu- nity' to revenge himself on the queen, ruslied to her chamber, tore the king from her arms, and brought him back to his courtiers. In revenge for this indig- nity, Edwy not only banished Dunstan (956), but ex- tended his hatred to the monks generally. Odo de- clared the marriage nnlawfid, carried the queen a pris- oner to Ireland, and ordered her face to Ije branded with a red-hot iron. Her wounds soon healing, she recovered her former beauty, and returned to Glou- cester. Here she was diswycrcd by Odo's emissaries, and was treated with such cruelty as to cause her
death. When Edwy attempted to resist this violence of the monks, Odo formed a conspiracy against him with Edgar, supported by the Mercians and Northum- brians, and he was deprived of the larger part of his kingdom — all England north of the Thames. He sur- vived the partition of his kingdom only a few months, and died before the end of the j'ear 959. While the monks represent king Edwy as licentious and a mal- administrator, Huntingdon, who was no party in the quarrel, gives him a handsome character, reports that the country flourished under his administration, and that Odo and Dunstan became his enemies because he was unwilling to submit to the severity of monastic rulers. — Iloefer, Nouv. Biog. Gtner. xv, 692 ; ilackin- io^\\, Histoi-y of England, i,55 sq. ; Wright, Biographic Brit. Lit. (A. S. P.) 430 sq. ; Collier, Eccles. History, i, 430 sq. ; Edinb. Rev. xxv and xlii.
Edzardi, Esra, a great Hebrew scholar, was born at Hamburg June 28, 1629. He pursued his studies at Leipzig, Wittenberg, and Tubingen, and, in order to become still more proficient, visited many of the larger cities, as Zwickau, where he studied under Daum ; Basle, where he enjoyed the instruction of Buxtorf (q. V.) ; Strasburg, Giessen, Greifswald, and also Rostock, where he was made a licentiate. On his return to Hamburg he gave instruction in Hebrew, and became famous not only for his learning in the Oriental tongues, his thorough acquaintance with Tal- mudic literature and Hebrew antiquities, but also for his zeal in the conversion of Jews and Uomanists. He died January 1,1708. Most of the works of Edzardi remain in !MS. form. The only book mentioned by Griisse is CoTisensiis Antiquit. Judaicce c.explicat. chris- tianorum super Jerem. xuiii, 5, 6, Ilebr. Rulh. (Hamb. 1670, fol.). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biograph. Generale, xv, 693; Griisse, Allgem. Literilrgeschichte, vi, 886. (J. H. W.)
Edzardi, Esra Heinrich, a theologian and his- torian, son of Sel)astian Edzardi, was born at Hamburg Jan. 28, 1703. Although his life was very short (he died Feb. 4, 1733), he left a number of works, of which the principal are, Schwedische Kirchengeschichle (Alto- na, 1720, 8vo) : — Ordnung der zehn Gehote in Lutheri Cfl<fc/«i«?»o (Hamburg, 1721, 8vo): — Disputatio deCycno ante mortem non canente (Wittenb. 1722, 4to) : — Wahre Lehre von der Gnadenwahl (1721, 4to).— Hoefer, Nouv. Biogr. Generale, xv, 694. (J. H. W.)
Edzardi, Georg Elieser, son of Esra Edzardi, known, like his father, as a great Hebrew scholar, v.as born at Hamburg January 22, 1661. He studied at the universities of Giessen, Frankfort on the Oder, and Heidelberg, and resided for some time at Worms, where he held man}' disputations with the Rabbis. After a journey throutrh Germany, he was appointed professor of Greek and history at the gymnasium in Hamburg. In 1717 he was appointed professor of He- brew, and in this department became the worthy suc- cessor of his father, and, like him, was zealous in the conversion of the Jews. He died July 2:^, 1727. Be- sides treatises on the Talmud, we have from him Ex- cerptn Gemarce Bnbylonicce. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Giner. XV, 693 ; Grasse, Liter argeschichte, vi, 886. (J. H. W.)