Jonathan Edwards, Taylor Edward, and William Bradford

Edward Taylor was a New England Puritan. He was born in Leicestershire and developed into a school teacher with Puritan sympathies. After the Great Ejection, Taylor left England, studied mysticism at Harvard, and ultimately became minister of Westfield, Massachusetts.

Edward Taylor was an extremely cerebral man and he took that intelligence with him to that wilderness town serving to construct defenses against Indians, civil disorder, diseases, dissent and the apostasy of moderate church reformers like Solomon Stoddard of Northampton. [Carlyle, 147] Taylor's life establishes its realization and focal point in things of the strength rather ...