Note 267 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Cf. his Faithful narrative of the surprising work of God in the conversion of many hundred souls, etc. Written on November 6, 1736, with a preface by Dr. Watts, etc., London, 1737 (two editions); and “with a shorter preface added by some of the ministers of Boston,” third ed., Boston, 1738. (Cf. Prince Catal., p. 22; and Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 563, 577, 578.) After the coming of Whitefield, he published Some thoughts concerning the present revival of Religion (Boston, 1742; Edinburgh, 1743; Worcester, 1808),—perhaps the strongest presentation of the revivalists’ side. Cf. Dexter’s Bibliography, no. 3092; Quincy’s Harvard University, ii.; Poole’s Index, p. 393. A Catholic view of the successive New England modifications of faith since Jonathan Edwards is in the Amer. Cath. Quart. Rev., x. 95 (1885).