Show yale gets papers pape of great colonial 0 dij the yule university iiii m i I 1 fmc presen presented tei with a arthe u fatuous famous thumb impera pers of 0 f t timothy edwards futina r of jor w edwards colonl nl N NL 1 theologian buys tho new ne york brkl puritan and cO colonial lonill ne niev eq for tile tho most inid purt lilile ile coat contic for a parson who would either edthh his sermons or brench lell att an more than taio briefest refe rife reny notes A great exhorter imd had to ix else ile he imd had no right to aim a pulpit in those storn stern n da lyu duya s great theologians open the dublo at ran doul seize i verso erso as a text and then preach that text for hours with alth the lie birin that tile the hand of the alright Al mIght gi gilded il d eda 1 bilm ail i ili to tile chapter and anh I 1 upon p 0 n blitch c 1 I 1 ho to baseil based his sern sermon ioa the rev timothy Edwards belon to that school A graduate of han of tile the class of 1091 1301 he was ns orda or A pastor of a newly founded ed am lional church at windsor eidsor conn 1004 1694 and occupied the to pulpit of 0 s church tor for 04 64 years 11 he 11 was wag ill quain quainter ted with hebrew literature was particularly distinguished foli toi accurate knowledge off of thee the latin creyk classics in preparing hilas mons mr edwards would noti note ote small slips of paper its his fir stiles second lies lles then lie would 0 i these manuscript outlines but t li i lie he entered the pulpit lie he would mould d let them in his study for many years it was ills big cu ci to preach entirely without ut note one sermon a copy of which Is in yale library Is known too to anve written in full by mr edwards waa as preached prea chod at the general ral ele el in 1732 of these papers dr sereno edw ed dwight son of the elder pre timothy dwight wrote he aln preached extemporaneously and lie was upwards of seventy w vit noting down the heads of his hi course after that time he be cone comma wrote the divisions on small opt ri paper which althey as they occa occasion slona alli feared between the leaves of thi the bit that he held in his hand his pa loners called mr edwards thumb thu 1 11 pers these papers the gift to 1 yale dr james hosmer penniman of ph delphta delp hla lita cover 08 68 pages and sermons preached in 1722 and 1721 1 |