People, Works, 5: 349, where he quotes a Scottish pastor who said of the Lord's Prayer, that
∑π≠ Notes to Pages 333–39
Problem of Human Nature,'' 75–97. Lewis O. Saum, The Popular Mood of Civil War America (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1980), xxiii, 27, 56, and passim, documents how in antebellum America the self was often popularly viewed as something to be overcome and controlled rather than celebrated.
35. Edwards to John Erskine, October 14, 1748, Works, 16: 265. 36. Life of David Brainerd, Works, 7: 461. 37. Trumbull, History of Northampton, 2: 155. Cf. Edwards, sermon, Isaiah 9:13–14, After Elisha Clark Was Killed (August 1747).
38. Edwards to ''A Correspondent in Scotland,'' November 1745, Works, 16: 181. My summary regarding the Concert of Prayer follows closely that of Stephen J. Stein, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 5: 37–38. On the role of prayer and prayer societies in New England and the awakenings, see Thomas Kidd, ''From Puritan to Evangelical: Changing Culture in New England, 1689–1740'' (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2001), 222–44, 292–94. 39. Cf. An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God's People, Works, 5: 349, where he quotes a Scottish pastor who said of the Lord's Prayer, that ''three petitions in six, and these the first prescribed, do all relate to this case.''
40. Humble Attempt, Works, 5: 333–40, 396–97. 41. Ibid., 342–43, quotation p. 342. 42. See Joseph Bellamy, ''The Millennium'' (1758), excerpted in Alan Heimert and Perry Miller, eds., The Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967), 609–35; and Joseph Bellamy, Four Sermons on the Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin (1758), excerpt in H. Shelton Smith, ed., American Christianity: An Historical Interpretation with Representative Documents, vol. 1 (New York: Scribner, 1960), 350–54.
43. Humble Attempt, Works, 5: 358–59. 44. Ibid., 361–62, 424. 45. Ibid., 310, 378–94, and Stein, ''Introduction,'' Works, 5: 43. As in all of his writings, Edwards worked within a well-developed tradition of interpretation. See ibid., 1–74.
46. On the latter, see James H. Moorhead, World without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880–1925 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). 47. Humble Attempt, Works, 5: 394–427. See p. 399 on Edwards' disagreement with Moses Lowman, an influential recent interpreter who argued that the rise of the papacy should be calculated from a.d. 756. Cf. Stein, ''Introduction,'' 44–45.
48. Ibid., 414. 49. ''An Account of Events Probably Fulfilling the Sixth Vial on the River Euphrates, the News of Which Was Received since October 16, 1747'' (notebook), Works, 5: 253–84, with quotation on p. 253.
50. ''Events of an Hopeful Aspect on the State of Religion'' (notebook), Works, 5: 285– 97. 51. See Edwards to John Erskine, August 31, 1748, Works, 16: 249, and Edwards to William McCulloch, October 7, 1748, Works, 16: 255–56.
52. ''Events of an Hopeful Aspect,'' Works, 5: 285–91 (entries in 1747–48). 53. Wertenbaker, Princeton, 25–26. 54. Edwards to John Erskine, October 14, 1748, Works, 16: 261, quoting part (appar-