Records, 22–27.
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5. Jonathan Edwards, ''Personal Narrative,'' Reader, 293. 6. Edwards mentioned the ''backwardness of the spring'' in his letter to Colman, May 19, 1737. He noted in his account book that the first blossoms appeared on the cherry trees in front of his window on May 7 (May 18 by our calendar).
7. Peaceful and Faithful Amid Division and Strife, sermon, II Samuel 20:19 (May 1737), Works, 19: 674. For his other uses of this image see index, Works, 19: 815.
8. James R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, 2 vols. (Northampton, Mass., 1898, 1902), 2: 73–75. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 125–29, and 245n12. 9. The Many Mansions, sermon, John 14:2 (December 25, 1737), Works, 19: 734–36. 10. Massachusetts' first governor, John Winthrop, in his ''Model of Christian Charity,'' which famously referred to ''a city on a hill,'' began by describing God's ordination of ''some high and eminent in power and dignity, others mean and in subjection.'' Perry Miller, ed., The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1956), 83, 79.
11. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 245n13, summarizing Hampshire Association Records, 22–27.
12. Cf. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 130, regarding the empty pulpit. 13. Sermon, Matthew 25: 1–12 (February or March 1738), ''g'' in Works of Edwards transcriptions.
14. Ava Chamberlain, ''Brides of Christ and Signs of Grace: Edwards' Sermon Series on the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins,'' in Stephen J. Stein, ed., Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 10, quoting from sermons on Matthew 25:1–12, booklet 7. I am indebted to Chamberlain for pointing out the significance of this series.
15. Charity and Its Fruits (1738), sermon 1 of the series, Works, 8: 145. 16. Charity, sermon 15, Works, 8: 371, 375, 379. 17. Ibid., 370. 18. Charles Wesley, ''And Can It Be That I Should Gain?'' (1738), The Works of John Wesley, vol. 7, A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists, Franz Hildebrandt, et al., eds. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1983), 322.
19. Sermon, I Timothy 2:5 (May 24, 1739), based on précis furnished to the author by Kenneth Minkema. We know of Edwards' preaching on this text and occasion only because the Reverend Ebenezer Parkman recorded this information in his diary. Parkman, pastor at Westborough, where the Edwardses would sometimes stop for one of the two nights on trips to or from Boston, also noted that on Friday, May 25, he dined with Edwards at the home of the Reverend Joshua Gee, and that Edwards preached that evening, probably to a private assembly at ''Elder Lymans.'' Ebenezer Parkman, The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1703–1782 (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1974), 63 (May 24 and May 25, 1739). 20. 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 (1973): 482–83.
21. Jonathan Edwards to the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, October 19, 1757, Works, 16: 727. See John F. Wilson, ''Introduction,'' Works, 9: 14–17, for a summary of the ''Miscellanies'' notes on this theme. Miscellanies nos. 702 and 710, from 1736 or 1737, Works,