THE MAN
"Edwards, John: English Calvinist; b. at Hertford Feb. 26, 1637; d. at Cambridge Apr. 16, 1716. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1657, M.A., 1661, D.D., 1699). In 1664 he took charge of Trinity Church, Cambridge, but a few years later had to give up his work on account of his Calvinistic Views. After having had several charges elsewhere he retired from the ministry in 1687, to devote himself to authorship, and returned to Cambridge in 1697, apparently for the use of the library. Though overestimated by his contemporaries, some of them calling him the St. Paul, or the St. Augustine, or the Calvin of his age, still he deserves high rank as a Calvinist theologian. Of the forty or more works that he published may be mentioned The Socinian Creed (London, 1697); The Preacher (3vols., 1705-07); Theologia Reformata (2 vols., 1713)."[Jackson, Samuel Macauley D.D., LL.D. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Baker Book House, 1950].
"Edwards, John (1637-1716). Calvinist divine, Cambridge graduate, he ministered at Trinity Church, Cambridge, from 1664 and stuck to his task even when plague struck the area. Later he held a fellowship at St. John's College, where his position became untenable because of his Calvinist views. After two further brief pastorates he retired because of declining health and the anti-Calvinist temper of the times. He lived for thirty years more and published more than forty works, notably the Socinians' Creed, intended as an answer to John Locke."Douglas, J.D. The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church. Zondervan Publishing House, 1978.
THE BOOK
"Edwards, John. Veritas Redux. London: Johnathan Robinson, etc., 1707, xxxvii, 558 pages.
This volume is a study of the five points of Calvinism by one of the great Puritan Calvinists of England. John Edwards (1637-1716), was thought to be one of the foremost Calvinists of his time, and this work represents the very mature presentation of his position both positively, by direct reference to Scriptural foundations, and negatively, by contrast with the Arminian point of view. The work is unfortunately out of print and very rare, but it is one of the plainest and most mature presentations of the Calvinistic point of view ever produced. Some publisher would do a great service to the cause of truth by reprinting this work".Steele, David N. & Thomas, Curtis C. The Five Points of Calvinism. Defined, Defended, Documented. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co. 1975.
TITLE PAGE OF THE BOOK
Veritas Redux
Evangelical Truths Restored Namely, those concerning:
God's Eternal Decrees;
The Liberty of Men's will;
Grace and Conversion;
The Extent and Efficacy of Christ' Redemption, and
Perseverance in Grace.
All briefly and plainly stated and determined according to the Holy Scriptures, the Ancient Fathers and the Sense of the Church of England.
With A full and satisfactory answer to all the arguments, objections and cavils that have been made use of by any writers against the said doctrines.
Being the First part of the theological treatises, which are to complete a large body of Christian Divinity. By John Edwards, D.D. London. Printed for Jonathan Robinson, John Lawrence, John Wyat. MDCCVII (1707).