36, quoted in Richard Warch, School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1701–1740 (New Haven:
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33. James Pierpont attempted to remove this obstacle in his November 5 letter to Timothy Woodbridge. Pierpont reported that a delegation that the Yale trustees had recently sent to New York to try to heal the breach between the Scottish and the English congregations had failed because of ''the Scotch parties extravagant terms.'' That meant that ''this a√air . . . is so circumscribed that Mr. Edwards will not any more engage in it'' thus freeing him for the North Haven post, which ''is a much better place than where he is now.'' By this time Edwards himself must have recently received the confirmation that there was no hope to return to New York and may have already moved to Bolton.
34. Cf. Diary, February 23, 1724: ''When I am at a feast, or a meal, that very well pleases my appetite, I must not merely take care to leave o√ with as much of an appetite as at ordinary meals; for when there is a great variety of dishes, I may do that, after I have eaten twice as much as at other meals, is su≈cient.''
35. The Pleasantness of Religion (ca. late 1723), Works, 14: 102, 107. 36. A Spiritual Understanding of Divine Things Denied to the Unregenerate (ca. late 1723), Works, 14: 75, 79, 90. 37. Living Peaceably One with Another (ca. December 1723), Works, 14: 132, 129, 121–22, 128. On the ''catholick'' spirit of the Boston clergy, see Corrigan, Prism of Piety. 38. Nothing upon Earth Can Represent the Glories of Heaven (ca. early 1724), Works, 14: 137–60, quotations pp. 145–46, 146, 157. 39. Miscellany no. 108, Works, 13: 278–80. Schafer dates this as February or March 1724.
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1. Works, 16: 786. 2. Cf. Proceedings of the Trustees, November 21, 1722, in Franklin Bowditch Dexter, ed., Documentary History of Yale University: Under the Original Charter of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, 1701–1745 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916), 235–36.
3. Thomas Clap, The Annals or History of Yale College (New Haven, Conn., 1766), 35– 36, quoted in Richard Warch, School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1701–1740 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 134. President Clap, who resented Edwards' later rivalry at Princeton, may not be wholly reliable on this point.
4. Diary, February 16 and May 22, 1725. 5. Warch, School of the Prophets, 191. 6. Thomas A. Schafer, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 13: 7, 15–19; Kenneth P. Minkema, ''Preface to the Period,'' Works, 14: 8; Wallace E. Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 6: 32–34; Warch, School of the Prophets, 206–7. On Deism, see Gerald McDermott, Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 34–51.
7. Trustees, October 16, 1723, in Dexter, ed., Documentary History, 246. 8. Diary, September 30, 1724, note, re: ''vacancy'' as vacation. Trustees, September 9, 1724, in Dexter, ed., Documentary History, 255–56, on o√ering the rectorship to William Russel. The fact that the crisis began before the commencement might suggest that the issue of the rectorship was a concern.
9. This remark could, of course, be the sort of thing one might say after seeing an acquaintance renounce Calvinism without such consultation.
10. Schafer, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 13: 17.