of his daughter Sarah from Brookfield. It is not clear why the Edwards would think this
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thing she was worried she was not su≈ciently resigned to God to bear was ''the ill treatment of the town,'' p. 174, cf. p. 172. Whether she felt there was already ill treatment is not clear. She parallels the worry with that of not being able to accept ''the ill will of my husband.''
34. In early March the town refused Edwards' request to pay the expense for the return of his daughter Sarah from Brookfield. It is not clear why the Edwards would think this might be a town expense. Perhaps she had accompanied her father on a trip and had been stranded there by illness. James R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, 2 vols. (Northampton, Mass., 1898, 1902), 2: 99.
35. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 158. Tracy has the best discussion of the salary question. The previous year, in a sermon preached for the installation of Jonathan Judd of the new town of Southampton, an outgrowth of Northampton and including many of Edwards' former parishioners, Edwards made a point of admonishing the new congregation to pay their minister adequately. He also had the sermon published, The Great Concern of the Watchman of Souls . . . (Boston, 1743). For summary, see Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 155–56.
36. Edwards to ''Gentlemen'' [Committee of the Precinct], [November 1744], draft, fragment, Works, 16: 148–49. Any details that he may have furnished have been lost.
37. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 157. 38. ''Jonathan Edwards' Last Will, and the Inventory of His Estate,'' taken from Bibliotheca Sacra 33 (1876): 438–46; the original is at the Hampshire County Courthouse, Northampton, and a MS copy is at the Beinecke. Works of Edwards transcription.
39. Edwards to the First Precinct, Northampton, November 8, 1744, Works, 16: 150–51. 40. Edwards noted in 1749 that he had one of the highest ministerial salaries in the area, but also the most expensive family. Edwards to James Foxcroft, May 24, 1749, Works, 16: 284. 41. Mark Valeri, ''The Economic Thought of Jonathan Edwards,'' Church History 60, no. 1 (March 1991): 53. Valeri summarizes a formulation by Allan Kuliko√. The section that follows is largely from Valeri, 37–54.
42. Sermon on Exodus 22:12, as quoted in Valeri, ''Economic Thought,'' 50. 43. Valeri, ''Economic Thought,'' 46. John Winthrop, ''A Model of Christian Charity,'' is often reprinted, as in Perry Miller, ed., The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1956), 79–84.
44. Hopkins, Life, 45–46. 45. Edwards, Religious A√ections, Works, 2: 417. Cf. 413–20. He later said that in Religious A√ections he had made ''some intimations'' of his new views. ''Narrative of Communion Controversy,'' Works, 12: 508.
46. See chapter 21 below.
chapter 19. Colonial Wars
1. Edwards to ''Friends in Scotland,'' [after September 16, 1745], Works, 16: 175–76, originally published in Christian Monthly History 9 (December 1745): 259–63. On the Boston newspapers, see the letter fragment asking for back numbers that he had missed to be sent ''by some Northampton man, that you see yourselves.'' Edwards to ''An Unknown Recipient,'' June 4, 1745, Works, 16: 172.