32. The last quotation is from Resolution 57, Works, 16: 757.
∑≤∫ Notes to Pages 87–95
Clergy at the Beginning of the Enlightenment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 19–21. For Harvard background, see Norman Fiering, Moral Philosophy at SeventeenthCentury Harvard (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981). On the prevailing Calvinism of New England clergy, see Corrigan, Prism of Piety, and Harry S. Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 127–81.
15. Proceedings of the Trustees, October 17–22, 1722, in Dexter, ed., Documentary History, 233.
16. ''Apocalypse Series,'' Works, 5: 129. Unlike Samuel Sewall, he did not give the Church of England a prominent place in the predicted scenario. He did think that the warnings in Revelation 2 to the church at Pergamos, described as both steadfast and infected with heresy, ''suit the case of the Church of England; and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.'' Still, he believed that the fifth vial of God's wrath was being poured out especially on Rome, Italy, and Spain. ''Exposition on the Apocalypse,'' Works, 5: 99, 116. See, Stephen J. Stein's introduction to this volume, and James West Davidson, The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth-Century New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), for valuable expositions of these themes. Edwards' millennial views are discussed in more detail below, especially in chapters 11 and 19.
17. Richard Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 321.
18. Nathan O. Hatch, The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977).
19. ''Personal Narrative,'' Works, 16: 797. Edwards was not so unusual in this respect. Thomas S. Kidd, ''From Puritan to Evangelical: Changing Culture in New England, 1689–1740'' (Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 2001), documents the wide concerns for ''the Protestant interest'' in the New England press of this era. Anti-Catholicism was basic to popular expressions of cultural identity and was often associated with millennial speculations.
20. ''Exposition on the Apocalypse,'' Works, 5: 114. 21. Ibid., 117–18. 22. Cf. The passage from ibid., 118, quoted more fully above as the epigram to chapter 4.
23. Questio, Works, 14: 60–64. 24. ''Appendix to Quæstio: Syllogistic Notes,'' Works, 14: 64–66. Miscellanies nos. 12 and 13, pp. 206–7.
25. James Pierpont to Timothy Woodbridge, November 5, 1723, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 6, ''Transactions,'' 1899, 1900 (Boston, 1904), 200.
26. George S. Claghorn, introduction to ''On Sarah Pierpont,'' Works, 16: 745–47. See Claghorn's notes for literature on this piece.
27. ''On Sarah Pierpont'', Works, 16: 789–90. 28. Diary, September 22, 1723. 29. Ibid. This comment was preceded by the observation to remain open to new discoveries as an old man, quoted in chapter 4.
30. Wallace E. Anderson, ''Note on 'The Mind,' '' Works, 6: 326. Thomas A. Schafer dates this entry as probably just before the ''Spider'' letter, dated October 31.
31. Kenneth P. Minkema, ''Preface to the Period,'' Works, 14: 5. 32. The last quotation is from Resolution 57, Works, 16: 757.