ed. Hickman, 2: 557.
Notes to Pages 472–80 ∑Ω∑
chapter 29. The Unfinished Masterworks
1. This and subsequent references to this letter are from Edwards to the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, October 19, 1757, Works, 16: 725–30.
2. Kenneth P. Minkema, ''The Other Unfinished 'Great Work': Jonathan Edwards, Messianic Prophecy, and 'The Harmony of the Old and New Testaments,' '' in Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation, ed. Stephen J. Stein (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 53. I am grateful for Minkema's work on this topic, which I follow as well as borrowing part of his title.
3. Christoph Wol√, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: Norton, 2000), 433. Cf. pp. 431–42, on the two late great works. 4. Cf. Stephen J. Stein, ''Introduction,'' Works, 15: 1–2. I am indebted throughout this section to Stein's most helpful overview of Edwards' biblical work.
5. Cf. Stephen J. Stein's summary in ''The Spirit and the Word: Jonathan Edwards and Scriptural Exegesis,'' in Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience, ed. Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 121–22, which I am following closely.
6. On Edwards and the commentarial tradition, see Stein, ''Introduction,'' Works, 16: 4–12. 7. Minkema, ''Other Great Work,'' 58, 64n19. Edwards also classified these as ''Miscellanies,'' but they were separate enterprises.
8. Mason I. Lowance, with David H. Watters, ''Introduction,'' Works, 11: 183. 9. Minkema, ''Other Great Work,'' 61. 10. Stein, ''Introduction,'' Works, 15: 12–23. Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), is especially valuable in documenting Edwards' engagement with the international discussions of this topic. On Bayle, see Richard H. Popkin, ''Pierre Bayle,'' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards, vol. 1 (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 257–62. Cf. Richard H. Popkin, ''Skepticism in Modern Thought,'' in Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Philip P. Wiener, vol. 4 (New York: Scribner, 1973), 240–48.
11. ''Controversies,'' notebooks, Works of Edwards transcriptions, p. 191. 12. Miscellany no. 1340, Works of Edwards transcription. This miscellany is published in nineteenth-century versions of Edwards' works as ''The Insu≈ciency of Reason as a Substitute for Revelation.'' See, e.g., Works of Jonathan Edwards, ed. Hickman, 2: 479–85.
13. Miscellany no. 1340, Works of Edwards transcription. 14. ''E≈cacious Grace,'' book 2, pp. 62–63, Beinecke, as transcribed and quoted by Minkema, ''Other Great Work,'' 57.
15. Jonathan Edwards, ''Concerning E≈cacious Grace,'' in Works of Jonathan Edwards, ed. Hickman, 2: 557.
16. ''Types Notebook,'' 152, as quoted in Lowance, ''Introduction,'' Works, 11: 179. Edwards goes on to deny the claim of some that things should be interpreted as types only if the Scripture explicitly so interprets them. ''For by the Scripture it is plain that innumerable other things are types.''
17. Stein, ''Introduction,'' Works, 15: 15 and 15n, 423–69, 154–56. 18. Ibid., 11, points out that Edwards' typological approach also allowed him an easy way to answer the eighteenth-century critics of the morality of some biblical teachings. For