Sunday
Oct052008
Happy Birthday, Mr. Edwards!
Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 05:59AM 
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones speaks for me when he says:
My advice to you is: Read Jonathan Edwards. Stop going to so many meetings; stop craving for the various forms of entertainment which are so popular in evangelical circles at the present time. Learn to stay at home. Learn to read again, and do not merely read the exciting stories of certain modern people. Go back to something solid and deep and real. Are we losing the art of reading? Revivals have often started as the result of people reading volumes such as these two volumes of Edwards’ works. So read this man. Decide to do so. Read his sermons; read his practical treatises, and then go on to the great discourses on theological subjects. But above all, let all of us, preachers and listeners, having read this man, try to capture and to lay hold upon his greatest emphasis of all - the glory of God.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors pgs. 369-70.
Reader Comments (1)
What a great quote! I love them both (Edwards and Lloyd-Jones). Last week I went to hear a friend of mine preach. In his sermon he said that Edwards was the greatest mind in the history of the U.S. I agree.
Without a doubt, Edwards was the greatest theological mind America has ever produced. In my opinion, he ties with Benjamin Franklin for the greatest mind. As I study Franklin's life, I often wonder what he might have written on theological themes had he truly embraced his father's strong Calvinistic, Congregationalist beliefs. I suspect he might have given Jonathan Edwards a run for his money!