ments and counterarguments in the two volumes.
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far short of a majority of the some 400 established clergy in New England. See Lambert, Great Awakening, 203–4, for summary of figures. The New Lights had enlisted 90 of the 250 ministers in Massachusetts, which was their primary focus. 32. Gri≈n, Old Brick, 73–79. 33. C. C. Goen, ''Introduction,'' Works, 4: 82n–83n, provides a table of parallel arguments and counterarguments in the two volumes.
34. Charles Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England (Boston, 1743), vi–xxx, 329–30, and passim. Cf. Gri≈n's excellent discussion, Old Brick, 81–88. Goen, ''Introduction,'' Works, 4: 89–97, also provides a useful summary of the exchange. Chauncy also aided in the anonymous publication of The Wonderful Narrative; Or, A faithful Account of the French Prophets . . . To Which Are Added, Several Other Remarkable Instances of Persons Under the Influence of Like Spirit . . . Particularly in New England (Boston, 1742), Gaustad, Great Awakening, 89n. About the same time he published A Letter from a Gentleman in Boston, quoted from above.
35. Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts, 327. 36. Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England, Works, 4: 296–97. 37. Ibid., 397. I am indebted to Timothy Keller for pointing out this passage. 38. Some Thoughts, Works, 4: 399. 39. As in the sermons, The Pure of Heart Blessed (1730), Works, 17: 67; Charity Contrary to an Angry Spirit (1738), Works, 8: 277.
40. Christian Knowledge: Or, the Importance and Advantage of a Thorough Knowledge of Divine Truth (1739) in Works of Jonathan Edwards, ed. Hickman, 2: 158.
41. Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts, 327, 384. Cf. Gri≈n, Old Brick, 85–87. See Old Brick, p. 197n74, for Chauncy's later high estimate, in replying to Ezra Stiles' inquiry about greatest Americans, that, in comparison to Stoddard, ''MR. EDWARDS, his grandson was much the greatest man.''
42. Norman Fiering, Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981), and Norman Fiering, Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981), provide the best exposition of this.
43. Edwards to James Robe, May 12, 1743, Works, 16: 108–9. 44. Edwards to Thomas Prince, December 12, 1743, Works, 16: 125–26. In Edwards' letter to William McCulloch, March 5, 1744, Works, 16: 134, he dates the beginning of the decline of the New England awakening from two years previously. This coincides with excesses that attended the aftermath of Buell's ministry in Northampton, described in Edwards to Prince, Works, 16: 120–21.
45. Edwards to James Robe, May 12, 1743, Works, 16: 109. 46. Dwight, Life, 223, says the sermons were probably preached at this time. 47. Religious A√ections, Works, 2: 86–89. Cf. the passage from Leviticus 9 and 10, quoted on the title page, which describes how after the people bowed down to a fire that the Lord brought to the altar, the sons of Aaron, ''Nadab and Abihu—o√ered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not'' so that the Lord destroyed them.
48. Ibid., 95, 96–97, 102. 49. Ibid., 181. 50. Ibid., 194–95.