1940), 256, quoting Diary of David Hall, MS in Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
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revealed to an advisory ministerial council in December 1749 that he wanted to have veto power regarding church membership, which he said Solomon Stoddard had had. See Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 178.
9. Chester Williams to members of the Hampshire Association, February 20, 1750, as transcribed in ''Narrative of the Communion Controversy,'' 599.
10. Jonathan Mayhew, A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission (Boston, 1750). [Elisha Williams], The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants, A Seasonable Plea for the Liberty of Conscience . . . (Boston, 1744), more directly connected eighteenth-century discussions of rights to the New Light controversies (see below).
11. Dwight, Life, 399–403, 421–27. Edwards to John Erskine, July 5, 1750, Works, 16: 352–53. Edwards to Thomas Gillespie, July 1, 1750, ibid., 386. 12. ''The result of a council of nine churches, met at Northampton, June 22, 1750,'' in Dwight, Life, 399–401. (The tenth church, Cold Spring, was not o≈cially represented, but Edward Billing was allowed to sit on the council and to vote.)
The council summarized the issue, saying that Edwards held that candidates for admission of members to full communion ''should make a profession of sanctifying grace,'' and the church majority held ''that the Lord's Supper is a converting ordinance, and consequently that persons, if they have a competency of knowledge, and are of a blameless life, may be admitted to the Lord's table.''
13. Ola Winslow, Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1940), 256, quoting Diary of David Hall, MS in Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. 14. A Farewell Sermon Preached at the First Precinct in Northampton, After the People's Public Rejection of Their Minister . . . on June 22, 1750 (Boston, 1751), in Reader, 212–41.
15. Edwards to Erskine, July 5, 1750, Works, 16: 354. He also mentioned that despite the controversy, a few of the young people of the town had been hopefully awakened during the past year, p. 356.
16. Edwards to the Reverend Peter Clark, May 7, 1750, Works, 16: 346. 17. Edwards to John Erskine, July 5, 1750, Works, 16: 355. 18. Ibid., 355–56. 19. Edwards to Hawley, November 18, 1754, Works, 16: 648–49. Four years later, Edwards was clearly still fuming over these o√enses and in no mood to forgive unless the town fully repented. See discussion of this letter below.
20. James R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, 2 vols. (Northampton, Mass., 1898, 1902), 2: 235. 21. Edwards to Erskine, November 15, 1750, Works, 16: 364. Hopkins, Life, 61–62. Trumbull, History of Northampton, 2: 227, 235–36.
22. Dwight, Life, 449. Timothy Dwight Sr. to Thomas Foxcroft, October 12, 1750, Dwight Family Papers, box 1, Beinecke, Claghorn transcription, mentions Edwards' trip to Stockbridge. In the fall he may also have had a call from Canaan, Connecticut, Winslow, Edwards, 264. A sermon on Luke 15:10 is dated September 1750 and marked that he preached it in ''Canaan/Westfield/Ipswich.'' Another sermon, Malachi 1:8, is marked October 1750 and Longmeadow. Stephen Williams, due to divided loyalties, stayed out of the controversy, but his invitation to his cousin to preach at his church is an indication of their continued loyalty and friendship.
23. Timothy Dwight Sr. to Thomas Foxcroft, February 17, 1751, Dwight Family Papers, box 1, Beinecke, Claghorn transcription. It is not clear what Dwight's o≈ce was at