wrote in a simple, engaging style. His essays on scientific matters were lauded for their clearness and precision. Edwards from his early youth was a metaphysician. He delighted in exploring the most abstruse questions in philosophy and theology. He was a master of logical art. He was at once speculative and deeply religious in his mental habit. He was a most acute disputant, and he discoursed from his own enraptured experience on the reality of spiritual light. His writings have exerted a powerful influence on thought, both in America and in Great Britain. He was the founder of a school of theologians in whose hands Calvinism has undergone important modifications. Perhaps no other man has so strongly affected American religious life. It was not until the epoch of the American Revolution was approaching, that, in connection with the political questions which then arose, there sprang up Legists. in the colonies a class of able legists, whose discussions, continued through the period of the formation of the Federal Constitution, are important contributions to political science. APPENDIX I. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE Columbus discovers San Salvador, Cuba, etc. Florida discovered and named by Ponce de Leon.. 1513 1519 Verrazano sails directly west to America... 1524 Pizarro sails from Panama for the conquest of Peru. 1524 Emigration of the Scrooby congregation to Holland. 1608 1608 Settlement of Plymouth by the Pilgrims. Grant of New Hampshire to John Mason.. 1629 Planting of Exeter (N. H.) by Wheelwright and others.... 1638 The Restoration: Charles II., King of England.. 1660 Recovery of New York by the Dutch... New York restored to the English.. King Philip's War.... Rebellion of Bacon in Virginia.. Division of New Jersey into East and West.. Virginia a royal province...... 1684 Death of Charles II.; accession of James II.. 1685 The East Jersey Proprietors surrender their patent. 1688 1688 1689 King William's War. ... ..1689-97 Revolution in Massachusetts; Leisler in power in New York; Execution of Leisler in New York; Provincial charter of Massachusetts; the annexing of Plymouth to Massachusetts; the New York Bill of Rights.... The witchcraft delusion in Massachusetts.. Maryland a royal colony..... ....... First class graduates at William and Mary College.. 1691 1692 1692 1700 Penn grants a new charter; Yale College chartered; West Jersey Proprietors surrender their rights of government. 1701 Union of the Jerseys.. 1702 Queen Anne's war; "the War of the Spanish Succession ". 1702-12 Separate Assemblies in Pennsylvania and Delaware; war in South Carolina with Apalatchees..... War in North Carolina with the Tuscaroras.. Charter of the Carolinas surrendered by the Proprietors.... 1729 The settlement of Georgia.. 1733 The "Great Awakening" in New England begins.. 1734 Georgia threatened by the Spaniards... 1736 |