3 Solomon Stoddard, The Way for a People to Live Long in the Land That God Hath Given Them (Boston, 1705), 61.
4 Jonathan Edwards, A Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union in God’s People … (Boston, 1747), reprinted in David Austin, The Millennium (Elizabethtown, N.J., 1794), 171; see also David Balch, A Public Spirit (Boston, 1749). Kerry A. Trask, “In the Pursuit of Shadows; A Study of Collective Hope and Despair in Provincial Massachusetts …” (thesis, Univ. of Minn., 1972), 21.
5 Joan R. Kent, The English Village Constable, 1580-1642 (Oxford, 1986), 15.