Excerpt from Collections of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society One is most identified with the community in which he does his work, in which the ties of life are woven and tightly drawn under the strain of events. President Edwards would seem, therefore, primarily to belong to Northampton, where the greater share of his labor was performed. Most unfortunately, however, as a result of that sudden contagion of sin to which good men and weighty spiritual events are sometimes exposed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.