of a busy, an active, and generally of a troubled life, should, in spite of such obstacles, produce so many works adapted to instruct the most learned, to aid the most industrious, and to bless the church of God in its most precious interests and its most distant generations, is one of those remarkable occurrences, which the literary as well as the pious man is called upon to contemplate with admiration and gratitude. The minister of religion, whatever may be his creed or his denomination, will, of course, consider the history and character of this distinguished ornament of his profession, as worthy of careful study, and in some respects, unquestionably, of studious imitation. But there is something, in the character which has been exhibited, adapted to profit every one who looks upon it, and especially every young man who is beginning to cultivate the powers which God has given him, and to prepare for serving his generation and posterity in a manner most honorable to his rational nature, and best fitted to enable him to live when he is dead.

The pious patriot, when he looks back with grateful acknowledgments on Washington, and other great benefactors of the community, whom God has raised up to accomplish his merciful purposes toward our beloved country, feels that he is cherishing sentiments as reasonable as they are dutiful. Equally rational and becoming is it to acknowledge the benignant purpose of God in regard to the moral and religious interests of mankind, when he raises up men eminently endowed to instruct the church and the world, to resist the encroachments of fanaticism and error, and to prepare the way, by writing, by preaching, and by example, for the extended establishment of truth and righteousness. When those who cherish these sentiments shall direct their attention to one and another, to whom the reflection is applicable, they will see, it is believed, peculiar reason to rejoice and be grateful for the life and the labors of JONATHAN EDWARDS.

APPENDIX.

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CHILDREN AND DESCENDANTS OF PRESIDENT EDWARDS.

I. SARAH, born August 25th, 1728. She was married, June 11th, 1750, to Elihu Parsons, Esquire. They had eleven children; four sons and seven daughters. Their residence was first at Stockbridge, and afterwards at Goshen, Massachusetts. She died at Goshen, May 15th, 1805, in the 76th year of her age.

II. JERUSHA was born April 26th, 1730, and died unmarried, February 14th, 1747, in the 17th year of her age.

III. ESTHER was born February 13th, 1732; was married to the Reverend Aaron Burr, President of the College of New Jersey, June 20th, 1752; had two children, a daughter and a son; the former married to the Honorable Tapping Reeve, Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut; the latter, Aaron Burr, late Vice-President of the United States. Mrs. Burr died April 7th, 1758.

IV. Mary was born April 7th, 1734, and was married to Timothy Dwight, Esquire, of Northampton, November 8th, 1750. She had thirteen children, of whom the eldest was the Reverend Timothy Dwight, D. D., LL. D.,

President of Yale College. She died at Northampton, in February, 1807, aged 73.

V. Lucy was born August 31st, 1736, and was married to Jahleel Woodbridge, Esquire, in June, 1764. She had seven children, and died at Stockbridge, in October, 1786, aged 50.

VI. TIMOTHY was born July 25th, 1738, and was married to Rhoda Ogden, September 25th, 1760. He had fifteen children, and died at Stockbridge, in the autumn of 1813, in the 76th year of his age.

VII. SUSANNAH was born June 20th, 1740, and was married to Eleazer Porter, Esquire, of Hadley, in September, 1761. She had five children, and died at Hadley, in 1802, aged 61.

VIII. EUNICE was born May 9th, 1743, and was married to Thomas Pollock, Esquire, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey. She had five children, and died at Newbern, North Carolina, 1822, aged 79.

IX. JONATHAN was born May 26th, 1745, and was married to Sarah Porter, in 1770. He was for many years pastor of a church in New Haven, and afterwards President of Union College, at Schenectady. He had four children, and died at Schenectady, August 1st, 1801, in the 56th year of his age.

X. ELIZABETH was born May 6th, 1747, and died, unmarried, at Northampton, January 1st, 1762, aged 14. XI. PIERREPONT was born April 8th, 1750, and was married to Frances Ogden, in May, 1769. He was an eminent Counsellor at Law, and afterwards Judge of the United States Court for the District of Connecticut. He had ten children, of whom one, the Honorable Henry W. Edwards, is Governor of Connecticut, and another, the Honorable Ogden Edwards, is a Judge in the city of New York. He died at Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 14th, 1826, aged 76.

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LIST OF THE WORKS OF PRESIDENT EDWARDS.

1. Published by Himself.

I. God glorified in Man's Dependence; a Sermon on 1 Corinthians i. 29-31. Boston, 1731.

II. A Divine and Supernatural Light imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God; a Sermon on Matthew xvi. 17. Boston, 1734.

III. Curse ye Meroz; a Sermon on Judges v. 23. Boston, 1735.

IV. A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of many hundred Souls in Northampton, &c. London, 1736. Boston, 1738.

V. Five Discourses, prefixed to the first American edition of the preceding work.

VI. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God; a Sermon on Deuteronomy xxxii. 35. Boston, 1741.

VII. Sorrows of the Bereaved spread before Jesus; a Sermon at the Funeral of the Reverend William Williams, on Matthew xiv. 12. Boston, 1741.

VIII. Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the True Spirit; a Sermon on 1 John iv. 1, preached at New Haven, September 10th, 1741. Boston, 1741.

IX. Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England, in 1740. Boston, 1742.

X. The Watchman's Duty and Account; a Sermon on Hebrews xiii. 17, preached at the Ordination of the Reverend Jonathan Judd. Boston, 1743.

XI. The True Excellency of a Gospel Minister; a Sermon on John v. 35, preached at the Ordination of the Reverend Robert Abercrombie. Boston, 1744.