drew charges of antinomianism and “enthusiasm” from critics. He also knew that her meditations were drawing Sarah into a deeper relationship with Christ. “If such things are enthusiasm and the fruits of a distempered brain,” he wrote, “let my brain be evermore possessed of that happy distemper!” However, Edwards drew a line at formal female authority in the church. When Bathsheba Kingsley of Westfield, Massachusetts, began preaching as an itinerant, Edwards called her a “brawling woman.” A pastoral