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In 1750, Edwards was dismissed from the church for not continue his grandfather's practice of open communion.
He then moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, then a frontier settlement, where he ministered to a small
congregation and served as missionary to the Housatonic Indians. There, having more time for study and writing,
he completed his celebrated work, The Freedom of the Will (1754).

Edwards was elected president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in early 1758. On March
22, 1758, he died of fever at the age of fifty-four following experimental inoculation for smallpox and was buried
in the President's Lot in the Princeton cemetery beside his son-in-law, Aaron Burr, Sr.

First Great Awakening: Jonathan Edwards

18.4 Let’s Practice…

1. What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau believe about the nature of man?

2. How has the beliefs of Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced education today?

3. What did Voltaire believe about the Bible?

4. What did John Locke believe about government?

5. What did John Locke believe about Christianity?

6. How did John Bunyan’s life make a difference in the flow of history?

7. What was Count Nicholaus von Zinzendorf’s major contribution?

8. How was Jonathan Edwards involved in bringing about a great revival during his day?

9. Explain what price Jonathan Edwards paid to follow Christ completely?

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