[h] _Connecticut Gazette_ (New Haven) April 1755-Apr. 14, 1764; suspended; revived July 5, 1765-Feb. 19, 1768. The _New London Gazette_, founded in 1763, was after 1768 known as the _ Connecticut Gazette _, except from Dee. 10, 1773, to May 11, 1787, when it was called _The Connecticut Gazette and Universal Intelligencer_.
Maryland published her first newspaper in 1727, Khode Island and Sonth Carolina in 1732, Virginia in 1736, North Carolina in 1755, New Hampshire in 1756, while Georgia fell into line in 1763.
[i] Edwards's _Nature of True Virtue_, written about 1755, was not published until 1765.
[j] This book, otherwise essentially Edwardean, was second only to Edwards's _Religious Affections_ in popularity and in its success in spreading the influence of this school of theology, and it did much, in Connecticut, to break down the opposition to the New Divinity. Edwards himself approved its manuscript, and in his writings recommended it highly.
[k] In 1769-70, Bellamy wrote a series of tracts and dialogues against this practice. They were very effective in causing its abandonment by those conservative churches that had so long clung to its use.
[l] Experience Mayhew in his _Grace Defended_, of 1744.
Lemuel Briant's _The Absurdity and Blasphemy of Depreciating Moral Virtue_, 1749. This was replied to in Massachusetts, by Rev. John Porter of North Bridgewater in _The Absurdity and Blasphemy of Substituting the Personal Righteousness of Men_, etc.; also by a sermon of Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, Dr. Charles Chauncy's colleague; and by Rev. Samuel Niles's _Vindication of Divers Important Gospel Doctrines_. Jonathan Mayhew, son of Experience, wrote his _Sermons_ (pronouncedly Arian) in 1755, and in 1761 two sermons, _Striving to Enter at the Strait Gate_.
Other ministers were affected by these unorthodox views, notably Ebenezer Gay, Daniel Shute, and John Rogers. This religious development was cut short by the early death of the leaders and by the Revolutionary contest. Briant died in 1754, Jonathan Mayhew in 1766, and his father in 1758.--See W. Walker, _Hist. of the Congregational Churches in the United States_, chap. viii.
[m] Hopkins replied in 1765 to Jonathan Mayhew's sermons of 1761. Mayhew died before he could answer, but Moses Hemenway of Wells, Maine, and also Jedediah Mills of Huntington, Conn, (a New Light sympathizer), answered Hopkins's extreme views in 1767 in _An Inquiry concerning the State of the Unregenerate under the Gospel_. This involved Hopkins in further argumentation in 1769, and drew into the discussion William Hart (Old Light) of Saybrook, and also Moses Mather of Darien, Conn, (also Old Light). This attack upon Hopkins resulted in 1773 in his greatest work, _An Inquiry into the Nature of True Holiness_. The whole question at stake between the Old Calvinists and the followers of the New Divinity was how to class men, morally upright, who made no pretensions to religious experience.