"Edwards viewed the overwhelming change of hearts in the people as evidence of God's Hand, redeeming New England and expounded this in his works, "The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God" (1741) and "Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival" (1743), wherein he defended that view of the revival as an authentic sign of God's working with them and in their midst. He was deeply passionate over the revival and its authenticity and brought to the people the constant awareness of the need to enter through the narrow gate to God's Kingdom. He urged for constancy and mercilessness in searching oneself, and reminded them endlessly about their congregation with God. He was a severe and severely demanding pastor who left nothing to chance by leaving everything to God, so that in 1742, he drew up a formal covenant through the blood of Jesus Christ and had his followers sign it to bind them visibly as true and sincere believers (Hollinger).".
Jonathan Edwards, was considered by many people to be one of the greatest preachers and churchmen in American history, he was born in East Windsor, Connecticut into a family with a long tradition of ministry. Edwards was the third president of Princeton. The only boy in a family of eleven kids, Attending Yale as one of its earliest students at the age of thirteen, Edwards graduated at the head of his class four years later, and then began a two-year course of theological study in New Haven. Having completed his education in 1722, he became a pastor in a Presbyterian church in New York, but left there to tutor at Yale in 1724, a position that he held for two years.
From 1725 he served as an assistant to his grandfather, Solomon , who was the pastor of a church in Northampton, Massachusetts. After his grandfater's death in 1729, Edwards decided to move along to the pulpit. His preaching during this period was received in different ways.
