268 years ago, as of yesterday, Jonathan Edwards preached his most famous sermon in Enfield, CT.
At that time, our readers know, CT was a Congregationalist theocracy, in effect, and the Yale-educated (especially in the sciences) Edwards was a well-known but back-woods preacher.
Scriptorium takes a look at Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
The prissy-mouthed portrait of Edwards does not capture what a fun-loving guy he really was (not kidding).