See also:JOSEPH See also:BELLAMY (1719-1790)
, See also:American theologian, was See also:born in See also:Cheshire, See also:Connecticut, on the loth of See also:February 1719
.
He graduated from Yale in 1735, studied See also:theology for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time under See also:Jonathan See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
Edwards, was licensed to preach when scarcely eighteen years old, and from 1740 until his See also:death, on the 6th of See also:March 1790, was pastor of the Congregational See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Bethlehem, Connecticut
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The publication of his best-known See also:work, True See also:Religion Delineated (1750), won for him a high reputation as a theologian, and the See also:book was several times reprinted both in See also:England and in See also:America
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Despite the fact that with the exception of the See also:period of the " See also:Great Awakening " (1740-1742), when he preached as an itinerant in several neighbouring colonies, his active labours were confined to his own See also:parish, his See also:influence on the religious thought of his time in America was probably surpassed only by that of his old friend and teacher Jonathan Edwards
.
This influence was due not only to his publications, but also to the " school " or classes for the training of clergymen which he conducted for many years at his See also:home and from which went forth scores of preachers to every See also:part of New England and the See also:middle colonies (states)
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See also:Bellamy's " See also:system " of divinity was in See also:general similar to that of Edwards
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During the See also:War of See also:Independence he was loyal to the American cause
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The university of See also:Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1768
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He was a powerful and dramatic preacher
.
His published See also:works, in addition to that above mentioned, include The See also:Wisdom of See also:God in the Permission of See also:Sin (1758), his most characteristic work; Theron, See also:Paulinus and Aspasio; or Letters and Dialogues upon the Nature of Love to God, Faith in See also:Christ, and Assurance of a See also:Title to Eternal See also:Life (1759) ; The Nature and See also:Glory of the See also:Gospel (1762); A See also:Blow at the See also:Root of Antinomianism (1763); There is but One See also:Covenant (1769); Four Dialogues on the See also:Half-Way Covenant (1769) ; and A Careful and Strict Examination of the See also:External Covenant (1769)
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His collected Works were published in 3 vols
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(New See also:York, 1811-1812), and were republished with a Memoir by Rev
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See also:Tryon Edwards (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1850)
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