The Tragic Death of Jonathan Edwards 

Died in his fifties however he managed to raise a family And preach Its not how long one lives But what one puts into it! Augustus toplady died aged 38!

If they made a Matthew everhard doll with a pull string voice box it would 100% have to say, "we are a reformed Bible believing church." Love your stuff, miss the Bible reviews, still a great Channel nonetheless.

Thanks, Matt, for this fascinating piece. It opened up a number of sad but uplifting stories of this tragic year in the life of the Edwards family. Keep up the good work.

How come I’ve never seen this video till now? Very well done

Book recommendation: "Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History".

Quoting from Wikipedia: 1. Edwards left behind eleven children (three sons and eight daughters). 2. Many of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards's descendants became prominent citizens in the United States, including Burr and college presidents Timothy Dwight, Jonathan Edwards Jr. and Merrill Edwards Gates. Jonathan and Sarah Edwards were also ancestors of Edith Roosevelt, the writer O. Henry, the publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday, and the writer Robert Lowell. 3. His descendants have had a disproportionate effect upon American culture: his biographer George Marsden notes that "the Edwards family produced scores of clergymen, thirteen presidents of higher learning, sixty-five professors, and many other persons of notable achievements."

Thanks for everything you do. You have been a great blessing to me.

Second cousin, 8 times removed. I love to listen and learn. My family.

Love learning about historical figures. Thanks for the great video.

Best video yet 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Gave me chills

Thank you. How deep and strong was their faith, to rejoice in widowhood, kiss the rod, and of course they are right. Nothing happens without God allowing it for our ultimate good, but we "modern" Christians seem so puny in comparison to them .

Great delivery on interesting and helpful information.

Wonderful. Tragic summary. Thank you.

An exceptional piece on Jonathan Edward's evn though it's about hi death. A departure from a devastated wasteland to a heavenly homeland of divine things

✟ For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)

Thank you… So interesting

Thank you.

Very interesting- thank you

I lost 3 friends in 2022 due to the covid jabs. All perfectly healthy and young and they died suddenly in their sleep :(

After listening to your Sara lecture. I started reading and found out about Jonathan s death so tragic. If he had only knew. Research did say his health was never robust

Good presentation. I think the year should be 1758 for your second bullet point at 12:38

While I understand the reasoning behind his letter, shouldn’t Edwards have been consoling his son with the good news of Christ and the gospel?

That's sad.

Could you please make a Video for Preachers about How Jonathan Edwards had preached the gospel, especially how he incorporated the Bible and how he quoted the Bible. And should we do this the same way in preaching now a days? How many parallel verses can we expect the listener to hear? Can we learn something from Edwards about the degree to which and the way in which we incorporate the Bible into preaching so that longtime believers, including unbelievers and baby Christians, are addressed but not overburdened? (Based on an expository sermon 😉)

Is there a link to. your sermon on Sarah Edwards? We are studying her life with our homeschool children here at the Aloha House of Hope and would love to be able to listen to it. Thank you.

Is that a typo on the final slide? If Burr died in Sept 1757, how could Edwards replace him in Feb of that year?

Thanks buddy,Coolbeans y’all,

Thank you for this. I wondered if you could comment on Edwards' last words when he said that, since he trusts his union with his wife was spiritual, it would continue forever?

Bro that's brutal.

PRECIOUS in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. PRECIOUS, not tragic.

Check out the book “Rock and Sand” about the Reformers

Trusting in God doesn't seem to help at all with infectious diseases.

He got a vax?

What is the difference between a systematic theology and a biblical theology?

honest est question from a seminary student working on a church history paper on the subject... As Christians how can and should we navigate the fact that Jonathan Edwards held slaves? Did he, at any point give any sort of justification for his posture with regards to that issue?

I think he never new Holy Ghost the person

Seems more likely quinsy throat. JE would have died on that day for some reason since God numbers our days.

Reputation goes a long way if you met Johnathan Edwards and didn't know who he was you would want anything to do with him and no one today would want to live in John Calvin's Geneva

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The famous Calvinist Jonathan Edwards (who John Piper hugely admires) wrote: "It is most just, exceeding just, that God should take the soul of a new-born infant and cast it into eternal torments." Jonathan Edwards Calvinism teaches that God chooses who is elect and who is UNelect/reprobate **BEFORE** people are born and **BEFORE** they have “done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭9‬:‭11‬ ‭ So if you are a consistent Calvinist you will believe that most babies and children who die go to eternal torture in Hell, because it was already decided before they were born - so the age at which they die is irrelevant. John Calvin wrote: "By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly as each has been created for one or other of those ends we say that he has been predestined to life or death.” John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion Famous Calvinist A. W. Pink wrote: “God loves the elect and hates the reprobate.” Calvinism teaches that God hates most people. Dr. James White, another famous Calvinist, also believes in infant damnation. But C S Lewis and John Wesley who were NOT Calvinists wrote about Calvinism: “The doctrine of Total Depravity… may thus turn Christianity into a form of devil-worship." - C.S. Lewis - The Problem Of Pain, pp. 28-29 "You represent God as worse than the devil; more false, more cruel, more unjust. But you say you will prove it by scripture. Hold! What will you prove by Scripture? That God is worse than the devil?" John Wesley Notice: under Calvinism and the Calvinists’ wrong interpretation of Romans 9 most people are determined by God to go to Hell BEFORE they have done anything good or bad - so they are NOT going to Hell because of sin or because of how they respond to the Gospel. They are just going to hell because the Calvinist God made them expressly to go to Hell.

Calvinists

He failed at keeping one of the two New Commandments Jesus gave us, to love others as you love yourself because he owned Slaves which he never freed.

You’re a “Bible believing church”? As if all other churches don’t say the same thing.