(Boston, 1736), 10, cited in Hall, ''Introduction,'' Works, 12: 15. This sermon was preached in
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but that he would be a cut throat or [illegible word].'' In light of the impulse to suicide by throat-cutting of that summer, this is an intriguing choice of words.
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1. Jonathan Edwards to Benjamin Colman, May 30, 1735, Works, 4: 99–110. 2. Almost every biography has followed Dwight in saying that Colman published this first letter. C. C. Goen shows that he almost certainly did not. See ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 4: 32–33n.
3. Sermon, Romans 5:6, ''prepared for the fast appointed on occasion of uncle Hawley's death'' (June 1735). He also dwelled on this point at some length in a July sermon, Ezekiel 39:28√, Works of Edwards transcription, concerning the apparent passing of the awakening.
4. Works, 4: 32–34. The ''awful distemper'' and the heat are from Stephen Williams' diary, transcription, Storrs Library, Longmeadow, Mass., August 18, 1736. Cf. August 21.
5. Isaac Watts to Benjamin Colman, February 28, 1737, quoted Works, 4: 36. This account is drawn primarily from Goen's introduction, Works, 4: 32–46.
6. The full title is A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton, and the Neighbouring Towns and Villages of New Hampshire in New England. Watts later apologized for his geography, explaining that his map had ''NEW HAMPSHIRE'' on it but no Hampshire County. The editors changed a few things to suit their theological tastes and also apologized, much more than the meticulous Edwards liked, for possible ''defects'' or ''imperfections'' in the account.
7. Michael J. Crawford, Seasons of Grace: Colonial New England's Revival Tradition in its British Context (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 147, 149, and 290n25.
8. Samuel Hopkins, Historical Memoirs Relating to the Housatonic Indians (Boston, 1753; repr. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1972), 14–81; Patrick Frazier, The Mohicans of Stockbridge (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), 13–49.
9. Faithful Narrative, Works, 4: 208. Edwards appears to have been away from Northampton from at least early September to about mid-October. Cf. Hall, ''Introduction,'' Works, 12: 5n.
10. Works, 4: 211. 11. The account of the Breck case that follows is drawn from a number of works that recount its details. These include Cli√ord Shipton's account in Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8: 661–80; Charles Edwin Jones, ''The Impolitic Mr. Edwards: The Personal Dimensions of the Robert Breck A√air,'' New England Quarterly 51 (1978): 64–79; Louis Leonard Tucker, Puritan Protagonist; President Thomas Clap of Yale College (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962), 47–58; Kevin Sweeney, ''River Gods and Related Minor Deities: The Williams Family and the Connecticut River Valley, 1637–1790'' (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1986), 226–51; and Works, 12: 4–17. Cf. four letters on the case, Works, 16: 58–64. 12. Sweeney, ''River Gods,'' 229–34. Quotation on p. 230, from William Williams to Jonathan Wells, Hatfield, March 12, 1730.
13. Jones, ''Impolitic Mr. Edwards,'' 67n. 14. William Rand, Ministers Must Preach Christ LORD, and Themselves Servants (Boston, 1736), 10, cited in Hall, ''Introduction,'' Works, 12: 15. This sermon was preached in