Someone said that we are pigmies, who stand on the shoulder of giants and so, were able to see further. The Puritans have been described as 'tall, spiritual oaks', and the tallest among them is one called Jonathan Edwards, pastor, theologian, missionary, 'revivalist' and apologist.
Most people, though, know him via the famous hell-fire sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an angry God". Then again, "he knew his heaven better than hell".
As I read some of his works, it seems out-of-step, at times, with our modern sensibility. The reason everything exists is for God's glory? What about our happiness? Edwards say, our true happiness and God's glory come together.
For every two books you read by a modern writer, try reading one from a different era, you'd breathe strange-scented air from a different spiritual atmosphere.
Works of Edwards
Yale research on Edwards
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