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16. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 257n38, says that all but two of the church members had joined after 1736. Under the Stoddardean system one cannot tell how many seemed to be converts.
17. Temptation and Deliverance: Joseph's Great Temptation and Gracious Deliverance (1738), in Works of Jonathan Edwards, ed. Hickman, 2: 230–33.
18. Self-Examination and the Lord's Supper (March 21, 1731), Works, 17: 270–71. 19. A Warning to Professors, or the Great Guilt of Those Who Attend on the Ordinance of Divine Worship and yet Allow Themselves in Any Known Wickedness (before 1733), in Works of Jonathan Edwards, ed. Hickman, 2: 187.
20. Self-Examination, 271. 21. Edwards to Thomas Prince, December 12, 1743, Works, 16: 123–24. 22. Ibid., 125. His account was published in Christian History 1 (1743) and James Robe's Christian Monthly History 4 (1745).
23. Edwards' notes of testimony of Rachel Clap, in Johnson, '' 'Young Folks' Bible,' '' 45. Cf. Rebekah Strong's testimony, 44. Cf. Bathsheba's testimony, Works of Edwards transcription.
24. Edwards' notes, Johnson, '' 'Young Folks' Bible,' '' 48–51. Also from Edwards' ''Fair copies of foregoing testimonies,'' which reports the testimony in a slightly di√erent form, transcribed by the Works of Edwards project.
25. ''Confession of Timothy and Simeon Root,'' ''owned June 1744.'' Works of Edwards transcription, ANTS manuscript. Edwards, who wrote out the confession, noted that the following portion in brackets was included for Timothy, a church member, but not for Simeon: ''[and violated the obligations I am under as a member of this church, engaged by solemn covenant to be subject to the authority of this church.]''
26. ''Confession of Oliver Warner,'' Works of Edwards transcription, ANTS document. The confessions are in Edwards' hand. Mentioning the testimony, Warner confessed that he may well have used such language, although he claimed not to remember the specifics. Hopkins, Life, 54, notes that once the dissent became general, ''little or nothing could be done further in the a√air,'' suggesting that Warner may have escaped this public confession.
27. See Johnson, '' 'Young Folks' Bible,' '' 38. Also see below regarding Pamela. 28. See, for instance, David Underdown, Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), a study of Dorchester, England. Dorchester was one of the most Puritan towns in England. Dorchester emigrants were among the earliest settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.
29. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor, 38–50, 91–108. See also chapter 9, above. 30. Chamberlain, ''Bad Books.'' On di√ering standards regarding men and women and the changing patterns Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), is especially valuable. Lisa Wilson, The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), provides illustrations of men's views of their roles, including in courtship.
31. Hopkins, Life, 54. 32. A Farewell Sermon Preached at the First Precinct in Northampton, After the People's Public Rejection of Their Minister . . . on June 22, 1750 (Boston, 1751), in Reader, 234.
33. Sarah Edwards, ''Narrative'' (1742), reprinted in Dwight, Life, remarks that one