Edwards, Jonathan, a celebrated divine, born at E. Windsor, Connecticut; graduated at Yale; minister at Northampton, Mass.; missionary to Housatonnuck Indians; was elected to the Presidency of Princeton College; wrote an acute and original work, “The Freedom of the Will,” a masterpiece of cogent reasoning; has been called the “Spinoza of Calvinism” (1703‒1758).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Edwards, Bryan * Edwin