son, ''An Anglican Critique of the Early Phase of the Great Awakening in New England:
∑∂≠ Notes to Pages 156–63
14. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 151. 15. Edwards expounds his views most fully in a sermon on Colossians 3:16, preached at ''a singing meeting'' on June 17, 1736. He mentions in passing that some may wonder why he does not sing in public services and explains that he needs to save his voice for preaching, which is of greater interest to the congregation than would be his joining the singing. Colossians 3:16 (June 17, 1736).
16. A Divine and Supernatural Light (first preached August 1733, printed Boston, 1734), preface. Reprinted as appendix to sermon, Works, 17: 425–26.
17. Divine and Supernatural Light, Works, 17: 408–25. 18. Timothy Cutler to Bishop Edmund Gibson, May 28, 1739, in Douglas C. Stenerson, ''An Anglican Critique of the Early Phase of the Great Awakening in New England: A Letter by Timothy Cutler,'' William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 30 (July 1973): 487. The credibility of Cutler's story must be evaluated in the context of his telling it four years later at a time when he was depicting the awakening as negatively as possible.
19. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 149. 20. ''Resolutions,'' no. 34, Works, 16: 755. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 149. 21. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 149–50. 22. Ibid., 205. He mentioned it in the context of Satan being loosed beginning with Joseph Hawley's suicide. See below.
23. Ibid., 157–59. He reports these professions in the context of noting the extraordinary number on whom ''this dispensation'' ''has had a saving e√ect,'' suggesting that there were not simply renewed professions of the previously converted.
Under Stoddard and under Edwards before the awakening many Northamptonites, although baptized church members, declined to become communicant members. Edwards himself preached in 1733 that some of his parishioners were overly scrupulous in not partaking of communion. See David D. Hall, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 12: 35–51, esp. 44.
24. On enthusiasm and Puritan radicalism, see among others Ronald Knox, Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1950); David Lovejoy, Religious Enthusiasm in the New World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985); Philip Gura, A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620– 1660 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1984). 25. Letter from Timothy Cutler to Zachary Grey, June 5, 1735, in John Nichols, ed., Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 4 (London, 1822), 298.
26. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 152, 188. For examples of these images, see such sermons as Revelation 19:15 (April 1734), on hell, and Isaiah 53:7 (February 1734), a communion sermon on the su√erings of Christ.
27. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 188–89, on the subject of ''vain imaginations.'' 28. Ibid., 152 29. Ibid., 152–56. See C. C. Goen, ''Introduction,'' Works, 4: 21–25, for other evidence confirming Edwards' account.
30. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 206. 31. James R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, 2 vols. (Northampton, Mass., 1898, 1902), 2: 79–81. 32. Term used by Deacon Ebenezer Hunt in Works, 4: 46.