argued that his payments should keep up with inflation. He also showed his meticulous-
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Solomon Stoddard,'' William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 30 (1973): 269. See Miller, ''Solomon Stoddard,'' 303–4n, for a list of the principal titles in the controversy.
26. In 1710 some townspeople had complained that his standards for admission to communion were too strict, a charge that he dismissed. Minkema, ''Edwardses,'' 36–37.
27. Edwards to Mary Edwards, May 10, 1716, Works, 16: 29. 28. Stephen Williams, diary, February 22, 1715/16, 1: 6 (typescript), Storrs Library, Longmeadow, Mass., quoted in Minkema, ''Edwardses,'' 75.
29. Edwards to Mary Edwards, May 10, 1716, Works, 16: 29. Dwight, Life, 17, notes that family letters indicate that Jonathan's mother as well as two sisters ''made profession of their christian faith'' during this revival. Minkema, ''Edwardses,'' 199n26, finds that Timothy Edwards' diary, p. 110 (Beinecke), lists ''A[nne] and Eun[ice] their relations'' but does not mention his wife. It would be remarkable if Solomon Stoddard's daughter would have ceased to be a communicant when she married Timothy and not met her husband's higher standards until after twenty-two years of marriage.
30. Minkema, ''Edwardses,'' 80–82. 31. Dwight, Life, 17. The above account is closely dependent on Minkema. 32. Ibid., 16. 33. Ibid. 34. Minkema, ''Edwardses,'' 116–17. 35. Like Jonathan, Timothy had lengthy salary disputes with his congregation, as he argued that his payments should keep up with inflation. He also showed his meticulousness in such matters by keeping accounts on what was owed him, almost literally to the last grain of corn. He had two severe disputes over his opposition to marriages to which parents had not given consent (his care on such issues may have been related to the memory of his own parents' tumultuous marriage). Minkema, ''Edwardses,'' 103n8, 114–15, 120–36. 36. Edwards to Mary Edwards, March 26, 1719, Works, 16: 31. 37. Edwards to Timothy Edwards, July 24, 1719, Works, 16: 33. Cutler also approved of Jonathan, congratulating Timothy Edwards on his son's ''promising abilities and advances in learning.'' Timothy Cutler to Timothy Edwards, June 30, 1719 (ANTS), quoted in Ola Winslow, Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1940), 60.
38. ''Personal Narrative,'' Works, 16: 791. 39. In his first ''Miscellanies'' entry on the beauty of holiness he wrote, ''We drink in strange notions of holiness from our childhood, as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour, and unpleasant thing.'' Works, 13: 163.
40. All these points can be inferred from his later diary when he is trying to strictly reform his habits and cultivate a more positive disposition.
41. ''Personal Narrative,'' Works, 16: 791. 42. Edwards, draft to Stephen Mix, ca. November 1, 1720, Works, 16: 35–36. 43. Undated fragment of letter from Timothy Edwards to Stephen Mix, folder 1720– 29 A, item 6, ANTS, quoted in Minkema, ''Edwardses,'' 171. 44. Edwards to Timothy Edwards, March 1, 1721, Works, 16: 37–38. Cf. Richard Warch, School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1701–1740 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 259–60. 45. In his ''Personal Narrative,'' Works, 16: 795, he writes that his intense experiences began about a year and a half before he left for New York, which was on August 10, 1722.