Edward_Taylor

Edward Taylor Edward Taylor (1642-1729) was a New England Puritan. He was born in Leicestershire and became a school teacher with Puritan sympathies. After the Great Ejection, Taylor left England, studied divinity at Harvard, and eventually became minister of Westfield, Massachusetts. Taylor was a colleague of Increase Mather and Charles Chauncey, and corresponded with Richard Baxter and other divines in England. He carried on a long-running controversy with Solomon Stoddard over the Lord's Supper, Taylor taking the position later held by Edwards. Donald Stanford says, "Taylor seems to have been endowed with most of those qualities usually connoted by the word puritan. He was learned, grave, severe, stubborn, and stiff-necked. He was very, very pious. But his piety was sincere. It was fed taylor, puritan, poetry, experience, england, , very, supper, spiritual, lord's, great, been, became, write, words, word, wonderful, witnessed, westfield, welcome, unfamiliar, thorough, theology, teacher, taking, sympathies, studied, stubborn, stoddard, stiff-necked, stanford, spelling, solomon, slow, sincere, shows