The Puritans in America : a narrative anthology / edited by Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delbanco, Andrew, Author.

Contributor:

Heimert, Alan.

Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puritans--United States--Doctrines.

Puritans.

Puritans--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwell called "a poor, cold, and useless" place--where they created a body of ideas and aspirations that were essential in the shaping of American religion, politics, and culture. 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.

Contents:

Part One. Loomings

The Soul's Preparation for Christ / Thomas Hooker

Christ the Fountain of Life / John Cotton

The Sound Believer / Thomas Shepard

Part Two. The Migration

Plymouth

Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing out of England into the Parts of America / Robert Cushman

Mourt's Relation / G. Mourt

New English Canaan / Thomas Morton

Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford

Massachusetts Bay

Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof / William Ames

The Danger of Desertion / Thomas Hooker

Reasons to Be Considered for ... the Intended Plantation in New England / John Winthrop

God's Promise to His Plantations / John Cotton

A Model of Christian Charity / John Winthrop

Letter from New England / John Cotton

Journal / John Winthrop

New England's Tears for Old England's Fears / William Hooke

Foreword to John Norton, The Answer / John Cotton

Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Savior in New England / Edward Johnson

The Gospel-Covenant / Peter Bulkeley

Part Three. City on a Hill

The First American Poetry

"Upon the First Sight of New England" / Thomas Tillam

Poems and Prose / Anne Bradstreet

The Antinomian Crisis

A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace / John Cotton

The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson / Anne Hutchinson

A Defense of an Order of Court / John Winthrop

A Brief Answer / Henry Vane

The Parable of the Ten Virgins / Thomas Shepard

The Application of Redemption / Thomas Hooker

The Specter of Toleration

The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam / Nathaniel Ward

Business in the Bible Commonwealth

Last Will and Testament / Robert Keayne

Part Four. O New England!

The Cotton-Williams Debate

The Bloody Tenent of Persecution / Roger Williams

The Bloody Tenent, Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb / John Cotton

Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health / Roger Williams

The Passing of the Fathers

Abel Being Dead Yet Speaketh / John Norton

New England Alone

The Saint's Anchor-Hold / John Davenport

Election Sermon : Sion the Outcast Healed of Her Wounds / John Norton

The Jeremiad

"God's Controversy with New England" / Michael Wigglesworth

The Mystery of Israel's Salvation / Increase Mather

Eye-Salve / Thomas Shepard, Jr.

The Revival of Piety

Narrative of Captivity and Restoration / Mary Rowlandson

The Safety of Appearing at the Day of Judgment / Solomon Stoddard

Part Five. Coming of Age

The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints

Diary / Samuel Sewall

Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica / Samuel Sewall

Poems / Edward Taylor

Magnalia Christi Americana / Cotton Mather

Reserved Memorials / Cotton Mather

Agricola / Cotton Mather

Witchcraft

The Wonders of the Invisible World / Cotton Mather

Examination of Susanna Martin / Susanna Martin

Petition of Mary Easty / Mary Easty

More Wonders of the Invisible World / Robert Calef

Politics and Society

Will and Doom / Gershom Bulkeley

A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches / John Wise

A Defense of the New England Charters / Jeremiah Dummer

A New Style

Practical Discourses on the Parable of the Ten Virgins / Benjamin Colman

Part Six. The Dispersion of the New England way

The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah II / Joseph Morgan

An Examination of the Power of the Fraternity / Solomon Stoddard

"My Present Thoughts of Episcopacy" / Samuel Johnson

Dogood Paper No. 4 : On the Higher Learning / Benjamin Franklin

Preface to Roger Wolcott, Poetical Meditations / John Bulkeley.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-432) and index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9780674038493

0674038495

OCLC:

923110823