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∑∑≤ Notes to Pages 232–39
13. George Whitefield, A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal: The Seventh Journal (London, 1741), 54–55, as quoted in Edwin Gaustad, The Great Awakening in New England (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957), 30. The entry is for October 19, 1740. 14. Gaustad, Great Awakening, 32. 15. Anonymous letter from Stonington, Connecticut, Boston Weekly Post-Boy, July 29, 1741, p. 1; anonymous letter, Boston Weekly Post-Boy, September 28, 1741, p. 3. Gaustad, Great Awakening, 36–41. ''James Davenport,'' Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, vol. 1 (New York: Henry Holt, 1885), 447–50. ''Head thrown back'' quote comes from Boston Evening Post, July 5, 1742, quoted in Gaustad, Great Awakening, 39, but is consistent with 1741 accounts.
16. Boston Weekly Post-Boy, September 28, 1741, p. 2. Tucker, Puritan Protagonist, 137. 17. Boston Weekly Post-Boy, September 28, 1741, p. 3. This same letter (p. 2) describing itinerants generally, remarks how they tell people ''that they are now hanging over the pit of eternal damnation.''
18. Proceeding of the Trustees, September 9, 1741, in Dexter, ed. Documentary History, 351, cf. p. 350 re Brainerd. 19. Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford as quoted in Tucker, Puritan Protagonist, 122. 20. The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, Works, 4: 276–87. Cf. Ava Chamberlain's valuable observations as to what he learned from first revival, ''SelfDeception as a Theological Problem in Jonathan Edwards's 'Treatise Concerning Religious A√ections,' '' Church History 63, no. 4 (1994): 541–56.
21. Distinguishing Marks, Works, 4: 228–48, quotes from pp. 228, 230, 235, 243, 244. Cf. pp. 273–74. '' 'Tis probable that the stumbling blocks that now attend this work will in some respects be increased, and not diminished.''
22. Ibid., 248–60. Quote from p. 260. 23. Works, 4: 53n. 24. William Cooper, Preface, Distinguishing Marks, Works, 4: 215–23. Quotes from pp. 215, 216, 217, 223. 25. Distinguishing Marks, Works, 4: 271–73. As early as April 1741 the Hampshire Association had as its question for debate, ''What is the sin that is commonly called the sin against the Holy Ghost?'' ''Introduction,'' Works, 4: 55n.
26. Distinguishing Marks, Works, 4: 272–76. In quoting Jesus from Matthew 12:30, Edwards changed ''me'' to ''us.''
27. His major qualification, ibid., 275–76, was cryptic: ''Those that maliciously oppose and reproach this work, and call it the work of the Devil, want but one thing of the unpardonable sin, and that is doing it against inward conviction.''
28. Ibid., 276.
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1. Works, 16: 98n. 2. Mark Valeri, Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 14. Edwards later characterized Bellamy as ''a little unpolished'' but of enormous gifts, Edwards to Thomas Foxcroft, February 5, 1754, Works, 16: 619.