John Edwards (minister)

Edwards was a Methodist preacher who broke with the Wesleyans and set up an Independent church [1] in 1755 at the White Chapel in Hunslet Lane, Leeds.

[2] In 1758 he published A Vindication of the Protestant Doctrine of Justification and its Prechers and Professors from the unjust Charge of Antinomianism; extracted from a letter of the Rev.

Trail, a minister in the city of London, to a minister in the country, his object being to testify to the world the doctrines advanced by him in his public ministry, which were laid down by Robert Trail in this letter.

In 1762 he published The Safe Retreat from impending Judgments, the substance of a sermon preached by Edwards at Leeds, a second edition of which was issued in 1773.

A mezzotint portrait after John Russell, engraved by James Watson, was published by Carington Bowles in 1772.