Excerpt from A Treatise Concerning the Religious Affections Jonathan edwards - the fifth child and the only son in a family of eleven children - was born, in the October of 1703, in the little town of East Windsor in Connecticut. His father, a man of considerable learning and of outshining godliness, was minister of the Gospel there; his mother, Esther Stoddard, belonged to a household well known in the religious annals of New England, and was herself regarded as surpassing her husband in force and freshness of intellect. Thus the early surroundings of the boy were favourable to the development alike of mind and heart, and he breathed from the outset an atmosphere which was singularly wholesome and pure. But no influences of heredity and environment will account for a personality so imposing as that of Jonathan Edwards. He is one of the kings in the realm of thought, and, in their select and peerless fellowship, he stands in the forefront; his place is beside Plato the wise, and large-browed Verulam, the first of those who know. It surprises us to see with What absolute mastery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.