Works of Jonathan Edwards
"In my early days in the ministry there were no books which helped me more, both personally and in respect of my preaching, than this two-volume edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards". Lloyd-Jones came across Edwards' name in a book by A C McGiffert Protestant thought before Kant. He questioned his ministerial adviser on Edwards, "but he knew nothing about him. After much searching I at length called at John Evans’ bookshop in Cardiff in 1929, having time available as I waited for a train. There, down on my knees in my overcoat in the corner of the shop, I found the two volumes of the 1834 edition of Edwards which I bought for five shillings. I devoured these volumes and literally just read and read them. It is certainly true that they helped me more than anything else. If I had the power I would make these two volumes compulsory reading for all ministers! Edwards seems to satisfy all round; he really was an amazing man."
(The words are taken from the biography)
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