Said of Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards is considered one of America's most important theologians. Someone once asked a hearer of Jonathan Edwards if he was an eloquent speaker, the man responded:

"He had no studied varieties of the voice, & no strong emphasis. He scarcely gestured, or even moved; & he made no attempt by the elegance of his style, or the beauty of his pictures, to gratify the taste, & fascinate the imagination. But, if you mean by eloquence, the power of presenting an important truth before an audience, with overwhelming weight of argument, & with such intenseness of feeling, that the whole soul of the speaker is thrown into every part of the conception & delivery; so that the solemn attention of the whole audience is riveted, from the beginning to the close, & impressions are left that cannot be effaced; Mr. Edwards was the most eloquent man I ever heard speak." Supremacy of God in Preaching