Daniel Webster: "The Freedom of the Will" by Mr. Edwards is the greatest achievement of the human intellect.
Dr. Chalmers: The greatest of theologians.
Robert Hall: He was the greatest of the sons of men.
Dugald Stewart: Edwards on the Will never was answered and never will be answered.
Encyclopaedia: One of the greatest metaphysicians of his age.
Edinburgh Review: One of the acutest and most powerful of reasoners.
London Quarterly Review: His gigantic specimen of theological argument is as near to perfection as we may expect any human composition to approach. He unites the sharpness of the scimetar and the strength of the battle-axe.
Westminster Review: From the days of Plato there has been no life of more simple and imposing grandeur than that of Jonathan Edwards.
President McCosh, of Princeton: The greatest thinker that America has produced.
Lyman Beecher: A prince among preachers. In our day there is no man who comes within a thousand miles of him.