TY - BOOK AU - Heimert,Alan AU - Delbanco,Andrew TI - The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology SN - 9780674038493 AV - BX9318 U1 - 285/.9/0974 PY - 1985/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Puritans-United States-Doctrines KW - Puritans-United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON EDITORIAL METHOD -- Introduction -- ONE: LOOMINGS -- Thomas Hooker, The Soul's Preparation for Christ (c. 1626) -- John Cotton, Christ the Fountain of Life (c. 1628) -- Thomas Shepard, The Sound Believer (c. 1633) -- TWO: THE MIGRATION -- Plymouth -- Robert Cushman, Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing out of England into the Parts of America (1622 -- "G. Mourt," Mourt's Relation (1622) -- Thomas Morton, New English Canaan (1634-1635) -- William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1650) -- Massachusetts Bay -- William Ames, Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof (c. 1630) -- Thomas Hooker, The Danger of Desertion (1631) -- John Winthrop, Reasons to Be Considered for … the Intended Plantation in New England (1629) -- John Cotton, God's Promise to His Plantations (1630) -- John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630) -- John Cotton, Letter from New England (1634) -- John Winthrop, Journal (1642) -- William Hooke, New England's Tears for Old England's Fears (1640) -- John Cotton, Foreword to John Norton, The Answer (1648) -- Edward Johnson, Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Savior in New England (c. 1650) -- Peter Bulkeley, The Gospel-Covenant (c. 1639-1640) -- THREE: CITY ON A HILL -- The First American Poetry -- Thomas Tillam, "Upon the First Sight of New England" (1638) -- Anne Bradstreet, Poems and Prose (c. 1635-1670) -- The Antinomian Crisis -- John Cotton, A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (c. 1636) -- Anne Hutchinson, The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637) -- John Winthrop, A Defense of an Order of Court (1637) -- Henry Vane, A Brief Answer (1637) -- Thomas Shepard, The Parable of the Ten Virgins (1636-1640) -- Thomas Hooker, The Application of Redemption (c. 1640) -- The Specter of Toleration; Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam (c. 1646) -- Business in the Bible Commonwealth -- Robert Keayne, Last Will and Testament (1653) -- FOUR: O NEW ENGLAND ! -- The Cotton-Williams Debate -- Roger Williams, The Bloody Tenent of Persecution (1643) -- John Cotton, The Bloody Tenent, Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb (1646) -- Roger Williams, Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health (c. 1650) -- The Passing of the Fathers -- John Norton, Abel Being Dead Yet Speaketh (c. 1655) -- New England Alone -- John Davenport, The Saint's Anchor-Hold (1661) -- John Norton, Election Sermon: Sion the Outcast Healed of Her Wounds (1661) -- The Jeremiad -- Michael Wigglesworth, "God's Controversy with New England" (1662) -- Increase Mather, The Mystery of Israel's Salvation (1667) -- Thomas Shepard, Jr., Eye-Salve (1672) -- The Revival of Piety -- Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of Captivity and Restoration (c. 1677) -- Solomon Stoddard, The Safety of Appearing at the Day of Judgment (c. 1685) -- FIVE: COMING OF AGE -- The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints -- Samuel Sewall, Diary (1675-1727) -- Samuel Sewall, Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica (1697) -- Edward Taylor, Poems (c. 1680-1725) -- Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (1693-1702) -- Cotton Mather, Reserved Memorials (1681-1724) -- Cotton Mather, Agricola (c. 1725) -- Witchcraft -- Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) -- Susanna Martin, Examination of Susanna Martin (1692) -- Mary Easty, Petition of Mary Easty (1692) -- Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1697) -- Politics and Society -- Gershom Bulkeley, Will and Doom (1692) -- John Wise, A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches (1717) -- Jeremiah Dummer, A Defense of the New England Charters (1715) -- A New Style; Benjamin Colman, Practical Discourses on the Parable of the Ten Virgins (c. 1705) -- SIX: THE DISPERSION OF THE NEW ENGLAND WAY -- Joseph Morgan, The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah (1715) -- Solomon Stoddard, An Examination of the Power of the Fraternity (c. 1715) -- Samuel Johnson, "My Present Thoughts of Episcopacy" (1719,1722) -- Benjamin Franklin, Dogood Paper No. 4: On the Higher Learning (1722) -- John Bulkeley, Preface to Roger Wolcott, Poetical Meditations (1725) -- Afterword -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX N2 - In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Heimert and Delbanco recapture the sweep and restless change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism through its dominance in New England society to its fragmentation in the face of dissent from within and without UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300362 ER -