vard Graduates, 8: 668. Cf. p. 667.
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late 1735, but Rand was expressing such views in 1734. A few years later he also questioned whether teaching the catechism interfered with children's ability to ''judge for themselves.'' See Sweeney, ''River Gods,'' 236.
Rand and a few others were, by Edwards' standards, lax on other matters. Rand and an ally, Isaac Chauncy, had o√ered their judgment that ''in case a married couple has a child born at seven months after marriage and there be no other evidence against them, this is not alone a su≈cient evidence to convict them before a church of the sin of fornication.'' Quoted in Valeri, introduction to sermon, Christians a Chosen Generation (May 1731), Works, 17: 274. Edwards used the declaration for sermon paper. Valeri infers that the case was from Northampton and that Edwards' condemnation in the sermon of ''lascivious impurities'' was a response to it.
15. Shipton, Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8: 661, shows that Breck was in fact dismissed for stealing more than only books. His father had requested that he leave under his care.
16. Edwards, letter, Works, 12: 157–59, cites by name about ten witnesses who attested to hearing Breck express these views.
17. Edwards, Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 148–49. See also Edwards' first letter to Benjamin Colman, Works, 4: 100–101. On the people's renewed zeal for Calvinism, see Edwards' preface ''Justification by Faith Alone'' in his Discourses on Various Important Subjects (Boston, 1738), which also underscores the role of this sermon in the awakening, repr. in Works of Jonathan Edwards, ed., Hickman, 2: 620–21.
18. Benjamin Colman to Stephen Williams, August 19, 1735, quoted in Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8: 668. Cf. p. 667.
19. Hall, ''Introduction,'' Works, 12: 4–17, provides a reliable interpretation. 20. Ibid., 146n. Cf. Tucker, Puritan Protagonist, 55, from whom I borrowed the saddlebags.
21. A Narrative of the Proceedings of Those Ministers of the County of Hampshire etc. That Have Disapproved of the Late Measures Taken in Order to the Settlement of Mr. Robert Breck . . . With a Defence of Their Conduct in That A√air. Written by Themselves (Boston, 1736), 65–66. Jones, ''Impolitic Mr. Edwards,'' 73, ascribes the remark to Edwards, but that is incorrect. See note 23, below.
22. The council, on which John Stoddard probably had some influence, did not concur in bringing the Hampshire justices in for a hearing, cf. Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8: 672.
23. In a letter to William Pynchon, Esq., December 20, 1735, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, Mass., Samuel Hopkins said that he wrote the first part and Edwards the second, but that he (Hopkins) was in such a hurry that he had no time to compare them. The second part, by Edwards, starts on a new page (67) and is titled in bold letters: The Defence. Hopkins' longer Narrative concludes with the witticism about Balaam's ass, which he attributed to a ''young gentleman'' who had been present. I am grateful to George Claghorn for a copy of the Hopkins letter. On authorship, see Claghorn's comments, Works, 16: 63–64.
24. [Edwards], The Defence, 67–93. On authorship, see note 23, above. [William Cooper], An Examination of and Some Answer to a Pamphlet, Entitled, A Narrative and Defence . . . (Boston 1736).
25. The reference to ''country'' clergy is quoted from a anonymous letter to the Boston Gazette, October 10, 1735, quoted in Hall, ''Introduction,'' Works, 12: 10.
26. Jonathan Edwards, A Letter to the Author of the Pamphlet Called An Answer to the