claims that Edwards was attempting to give himself dictatorial powers was that he had
∑π∂ Notes to Pages 354–59
32. Edwards to Thomas Foxcroft, May 24, 1749, Works, 16: 283–84. 33. An Humble Inquiry, Works, 12: 315–17, cf. p. 213. 34. Edwards to Mary Edwards, July 26, 1749, Works, 16: 288–90. In 1741 Edwards had written ''my four eldest children (the youngest between six and seven years of age) have been savingly wrought upon, the eldest some years ago,'' Edwards to Benjamin Colman, March 9, 1741, Works, 16: 88, but apparently he had changed his mind about Mary.
35. Dwight, Life, 284–85. (Mary became the matriarch of the Dwight family.) Cf. Edwards to Ebenezer Parkman, September 11, 1749, Works, 16: 291–92, detailing the di≈- culties of his journey and why he did not stop at Parkman's. Christ the Example of Ministers, preached at Portsmouth, at the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Job Strong, June 28, 1749 (Boston, 1750) in Works of Jonathan Edwards, ed. Hickman, 2: 960–65.
chapter 22. The Crucible
1. Joseph Bellamy to Thomas Foxcroft, May 6, 1749 (Harvard, Houghton Library, MS Am 1427.1 [1]), transcribed by George Claghorn.
2. Edwards to Joseph Bellamy, December 6, 1749, Works, 16: 308–9. (I have changed ''was'' to ''were'' in the first quotation to fit modern usage.) Cf. Edwards' detailed account of these events is found in ''Narrative of the Communion Controversy,'' Works, 12: 507–619.
3. Edwards to ''A Correspondent in Scotland,'' November 1745, Works, 16: 185, refers to Seth Pomeroy and Joseph Hawley as ''both worthy pious men.''
4. ''Joseph Hawley,'' in Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, vol. 1 (New York: Henry Holt, 1885), 709. Iain Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth Trust, 1988): 148, says Edwards aided in the education of at least one of his Hawley cousins.
5. Patricia J. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in EighteenthCentury Northampton (New York: Hill and Wang, 1980), 164–66, 257n, and Kathryn Kish Sklar, ''Culture versus Economics: A Case of Fornication in Northampton in the 1740s,'' University of Michigan Papers in Women's Studies (May 1978), 35–56, provide helpful accounts of this episode. On the growing importance of issues of male sexuality, see Ava Chamberlain, ''The Immaculate Ovum: Jonathan Edwards and the Construction of the Female Body,'' William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 57, no. 2 (April 2000): 289–322, and Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995). The quotation from Edwards is from an extended argument for the validity of the law in Exodus 22:16 on this point in an undated manuscript, ''Some reasons . . . [for] the obligation of a man to marry a virgin that he had humbled.'' ANTS, Works of Edwards transcription. He also argued that such laws must be enforced both in civil society and through church censure, ''the Good order decency and benefit of mankind in society, and especially their virtue & purity.''
6. Joseph Hawley to Elisha Hawley, Northampton, Mass., January 16, 1749, Hawley Papers, New York Public Library, George Claghorn transcription. Edwards to John Erskine, July 5, 1750, Works, 16: 353.
7. Edwards to Speaker Thomas Hubbard, August 31, 1751, Works, 16: 403. 8. Edwards to Thomas Foxcroft, February 19/20, 1750, Works, 16: 323. Helping fuel the claims that Edwards was attempting to give himself dictatorial powers was that he had