3:1–2, Works of Edwards transcription (probably preached in summer 1729).
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37. Minkema, ''Preface to the Period,'' Works, 14: 36–38. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 91–98.
38. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 146. 39. Signs of God's Displeasure in the Removal of Useful People. Sermon no. 119, Isaiah 3:1–2, Works of Edwards transcription (probably preached in summer 1729). 40. Living Unconverted Under an Eminent Means of Grace (probably preached in spring 1729), Works, 14: 365–67, 370.
41. Minkema, ''Preface to the Period,'' Works, 14: 13. 42. Edwards indicated that there were about 200 families in Northampton in the 1730s. Iain Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth Trust, 1987), 89, estimates the population as between 1,250 and 1,400 based on a similar ratio of population to families thirty-five years later. Cf. chapter 21, note 24, below.
43. To the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, October 19, 1757, Works, 16: 726. 44. Timothy Edwards to Anne Edwards, September 12, 1729, as quoted in Minkema, ''Preface to the Period,'' Works, 14: 13. Minkema notes that whereas Dwight, Life, 115, says Edwards was incapacitated through the entire summer, Thomas Schafer has demonstrated that Edwards wrote too many sermons during this period for that to be the case. He also was actively working on his notebooks when he was not preaching, suggesting stability in state of mind. Dwight says that his health failed, ''in consequence of too close application,'' p. 115.
45. New England Weekly Journal, February 2, 1730. 46. Dwight, Life, 116–18. Kenneth Minkema, ''The Edwardses: A Ministerial Family in Eighteenth-Century New England'' (Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1988), 155–57, 199, quotation p. 157 from Timothy Edwards, ''An Account of the Last Sickness of My Dear Daughter, Jerusha,'' n.d., Timothy Edwards Papers, ANTS.
47. See Works, 14: 548–50, for a summary of themes of sermons for late 1729. 48. Edward H. Davidson, Jonathan Edwards: The Narrative of a Puritan Mind (Boston: Houghton Mi∆in, 1966), 34.
49. Miscellany no. 462, Works, 13: 505. Jonathan's greater willingness to criticize Stoddard is indicated also in Miscellany no. 411, written shortly after Stoddard's death, where he spelled out his di√erences with Stoddard's view that the humiliation that precedes conversion is not a manifestation of genuine faith. Cf. Schafer, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 13: 28
50. Sermon, Luke 22:48 (ca. 1729). Cf. sermon, The Threefold Work of the Holy Ghost (1729), Works, 14: 429–30.
51. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 238n29. Tracy cites Tiziana Rota, ''Marriage and Family Life in Northampton, Massachusetts: A Demographic Study, 1690–1750'' (M.A. thesis, Mount Holyoke College, 1975), who found that from 1691 to 1710 the figure was 6 percent and from 1711 to 1730 it was 10 percent. From 1731 to 1750 the figure dropped to 4.7 percent, which suggests that Edwards' revivals and strictures did have some impact on behavior. The Northampton Church Records record only one case of someone (a man) being disciplined for fornication (in 1743) during Edwards' era. On the large patterns, see Daniel Scott Smith and Michael S. Hindus, ''Premarital Pregnancy in American, 1640– 1971: An Overview and Interpretation,'' Journal of Interdisciplinary History 5 (1975): 537–70. Their figures, based on studies mostly in New England, suggest that the percentage of premarital pregnancies rose steadily in the colonies during the period from 1700 to 1750,