Religion and its reformation in America, beginnings to 1730 : an anthology of primary sources / Michael J. Colacurcio and Allison M. Johnson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colacurcio, Michael J., editor.

Johnson, Allison M., 1984- editor.

Series:

Documents of Anglophone Christianity.

Documents of Anglophone Christianity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Church history--18th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 1117 Seiten)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Beginning with a brief look at what the European colonists were able to make of indigenous beliefs and practices, and ending in 1730--the year before the first published work of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards-- Religion and Its Reformation in America seeks to highlight the distinguishing features of Christianity in the first century of its life in the colonies that would become the United States.The transplanted Church of England in Virginia, the Catholicism of Maryland, and, later on, the Quaker experience of Pennsylvania are well represented, but the heaviest emphasis falls on the "Puritans" of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Astonishingly, the leaders of a migrant population produced a religious literature that, in both quantity and intellectual acumen, is unmatched in any other colonial venue on record. Drawing on an array of texts written on the Continent, and in some cases on a personal experience of Reformed churches abroad, these so-called Puritans sought a New Church in a providentially provided New England.The general outlines of their story--end-time excitement, the establishment of a radical new ecclesiology (which came to be known as Congregationalism), second- and third-generation confusion and compromise which yet refused to concede that their radicalism had been a mistake--are well known to historians who specialize in this period. Presented here, however, for scholar and student alike, is something approaching a full literary record--not just names and dates and creeds and platforms, but a rich human experience of motive, energy, action, and affect. Religion to be sure, with reform its driving force--but also literature in its best sense, eager to upend prevailing assumptions." -- publisher's description.

Contents:

VI. END OF AN ERA: The Brattle Street Church Manifesto (1699)

from: Gospel Order Revived (1700) ; from: Practical Discourses upon the Parable of the Ten Virgins (1707) / Benjamin Colman

Massachusetts Proposals (1705)

from: "A Sermon for the Reformation of Manners" (1716) [online] ; from: "Some Observations on the New Method of Receiving the Small-Pox ..." 1721) / Benjamin Colman [online]

Saybrook Platform of Connecticut (1708)

from: An Appeal to the Learned (1710) ; from: "The Efficacy of the Fear of Hell" (1713) [online] ; from: "The Defects of Preachers Reproved" (1723) / Solomon Stoddard [online]

from: The Churches Quarrel Espoused (1710) [online] ; from: Vindication of the ... New England Churches (1717) / Jonathan Wise

from: Bonifacius (1710) ; from: The Christian Philosopher (1721) ; from: Manuductio Ad Ministerium (1726) / Cotton Mather [online]

Revisionism and Immaterialism at Yale

from: "My Present Thoughts on Episcopacy ... (1719) ; from: Noetica (1752) / Samuel Johnson

from: "Notes on the Mind" (1716ff.) / Jonathan Edwards

from: "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity (1725) ; from: Autobiography (1771ff.) / Benjamin Franklin

from: "The People of New England" (1730) / Thomas Prince.

V. OTHER REGIONS, OTHER VOICES. A. VIRGINIA: from: Our Savior's Divine Sermon on the Mount (1722) / James Blair

from: A Good Conversation (1707) [online] ; from: Narrative of the New and Unusual American Imprisonment of Two Presbyterian Ministers (1707) / Francis Makemie

from: The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) / Robert Beverley

from: The Secret Diary (1709ff.) ; from: The History of the Dividing Line (1728ff.) / William Byrd II [online].

B. MARYLAND: from: A Relation of Maryland (1635) ; An Act Concerning Religion (1649) / Andrew White.

C. PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY: from: The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of New Caesarea, or New Jersey (1664)

from: Some Reasons and Causes of the Late Separation (1692) / George Keith [online]

from: Primitive Christianity in the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers (1696) / William Penn

from: An Apology for the True Christian Divinity ... (1703) / Robert Barclay

from: A Journal, or Historical Account of the ... Work of the Ministry (1709) / George Fox

from: A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the Synod at Philadelphia (1722) / Jonathan Dickinson

from: A Clear Demonstration (1731) / Theodore Frelinghuysen. D. NEW AMSTERDAM: from: Letter to Smoutius (1628) / Jonas Michaelius.

From: More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700) / Robert Calef

from: Diary (1674-1729) ; from: Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica (1697) ; from: "The Selling of Joseph" (1700) / Samuel Sewall

from: The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Christ (1687) / Solomon Stoddard I [online]

from: The Doctrine of the Instituted Churches (1700) / Solomon Stoddard.

From: "The Only Sure Way to Prevent Threatened Calamity..." (1682) ; from: "The Character of a Good Ruler" (1694) [online] ; from: The Peril of the Times Displayed (1700) [online] ; from: A Complete Body of Divinity (1726 (1687-1707)) / Samuel Willard

"Upon the Sweeping Flood" (1683) ; "Upon a Wasp Chilled" [online] ; "Huswifery" [online] ; "The Ebb and Flow" ; "Upon Wedlock and the Death of Children" ; from: Gods Determinations Touching His Elect (1682) ; from: Preparatory Meditations ; from: Treatise Concerning the Lord's Supper (1694) / Edward Taylor

from: Christographia (1701-1703) / Edward Taylor II [online]

from: Upon the Types of the Old Testament (1693) / Edward Taylor

from: "Result" of the Reforming Synod of 1679

from: A Narrative of the Planting of the New England Colony (1694) / Joshua Scottow

from: Election Sermon (1689) [online] ; from: Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) ; from: Magnalia Christi Americana (1702 (1698)) / Cotton Mather

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From: The Mystery of Israel's Salvation (1669) ; from: "The Day of Trouble Is Near" (1674) ; from: A Brief History of... King Philip's War (1676) [online] ; from: "A Call to the Rising Generation" (1678) ; from: The Necessity of Reformation (1679) [online] ; from: An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684) ; from: The Order of the Gospel (1700) / Increase Mather

from: "New England Pleaded With" (1673) ; [online] from: "The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence" (1677) / Urian Oakes

from: "New England's Errand into the Wilderness" (1670) / Samuel Danforth

from: "Eye-Salve" (1672) / Thomas Shepard, Jr.

from: Narrative of Her Captivity and Redemption (1682) / Mary White Rowlandson

from: The Redeemed Captive (1707) / John Williams

IV. AFTER ZION, WHAT?: from: Result of the Half-Way Synod (1662)

from: "An Apologetical Preface" (1662) / Increase Mather

from: "Another Essay ..." (1662) / John Davenport

from: An Answer to the Apologetical Preface (1662) / Jonathan Mitchell

from: "A Defence of the Answer and Arguments of the Synod Met at Boston in the Year 1662 ... (1662) / Richard Mather

from: "The Day of Doom" (1662) ; from: "God's Controversy with New England" (1662) / Michael Wigglesworth

from: "Nehemiah on the Wall" (1667) / Jonathan Mitchell

from: "New England's True Interest" (1668) / William Stoughton

from: New England's Memorial (1669) / Nathaniel Morton

from: "The Happiness of a People" (1676) ; from: General History of New England (1680) / William Hubbard [online]

From: "Ill News from New England" (1652) / John Clarke

"To the Governor of Massachusetts Protesting the Baptists' Treatment" (1651) / Roger Williams.

From: the Bay Psalm Book [officially, The Whole Book of Psalms, Faithfully Translated ...] (1640)

from: "Contemplations" ; from: The Tenth Muse (1650) ; from: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (1678) ; "To My Dear Children" (1867) ; from: "Meditations Divine and Moral" (1867) ; "... Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House (1666)" (1867) ; "As Weary Pilgrim, Now at Rest" (1867) / Anne Bradstreet

from: "New England's Tears for Old England's Fears" (1640) / William Hooke.

D. CONGREGATIONALIST ORTHODOXY: from: Letter to Salem (1636) ; from: Letter to the Lord Say and Sele (1636) ; from: Keys to the Kingdom (1644) / John Cotton

from: Survey of the Summe ... (1645) / Thomas Hooker

from: Simplicities Defense (1646) / Samuel Gorton

from: The Childe Petition (1646)

from: The Cambridge Platform (1646-1648)

from: Responsio (1648) ; from: The Heart of New England Rent (1659) / John Norton

From: A Brief Exposition of the Whole Book of Canticles (1642 (1621-1623)) ; from: The Way of Life (1641) ; from: Christ the Fountain of Life (1651) ; from: "God's Promise to His Plantations" (1630) ; from: The New Covenant (1654 (1635-1636)) ; from: Mr. Cotton's Rejoinder (1637) ; from: The Bloody Tenet Washed (1647) ; from: The Church's Resurrection (1642) / John Cotton

from: "A Fast-Day Sermon" (1637) ; from: Mercurius Americanus (1645) / John Wheelwright

from: The Trials of Anne Hutchinson, Civil Trial (1637)

from: The Trials of Anne Hutchinson, Church Trial (1638)

from: The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam (1645) / Nathaniel Ward

from: Abel Being Dead Yet Speaketh (1658) ; from: The Orthodox Evangelist (1654) ; from: "Sion the Outcast Healed of Her Wounds" (1661) / John Norton

from: The Saints Anchor-Hold (1661) / John Davenport

from: The Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Savior (1654) / Edward Johnson

From: Letter to John Winthrop (1636) ; from: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution (1644) ; from: The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652) / Roger Williams

from: The Poor Doubting Christian (1629) ; from: The Application of Redemption (1656 (1636-1638)) ; from: The Soul's Ingrafting (1637) / Thomas Hooker

from: Autobiography (and Journal) (1832 (1639)) ; from: Lay Narratives (1637-1648) ; from: The Sound Believer (1652 (1634-1635)) ; from: Parable of the Ten Virgins (1660 (1636-1638)) ; from: Preface to Defense of the Answer (1648) / Thomas Shepard

from: The Gospel Covenant (1646, 1651) / Peter Bulkeley

from: "A Brief History of the Dedham Church" (1638) / John Allin

From: New England's Plantation (1630) / Francis Higginson

from: "Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removal ..." (1622) / Robert Cushman

from: Mourt's Relation (1622)

from: Good News from New England (1624) / Edward Winslow

from: Of Plymouth Plantation (1857 (1608-1648)) / William Bradford

from: The New English Canaan (1637) / Thomas Morton

The Salem Covenants (1629, 1636)

Letter to the Town of Norwich (1636) / Michael Metcalfe [online].

C. A GREATER MIGRATION: The Charlestown-Boston Covenant (1632)

from: "Christian Experience" (1636) ; "Reasons for Forsaking England"/"Farewell" (1629) ; from: "The Humble Request" (1630) [online] ; from: "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) ; from: Journal History of New England (1630-1649) ; from: A Short Story of ... the Antinomians (1644) / John Winthrop

from: The Memoir of Captain Roger Clapp (1731 (1640)) / Roger Clapp

"Letter to His Former Parishioners" (1632) / Thomas Weld

III. A NEW CHURCH IN A NEW ENGLAND. A. OLD WORLD ORIGINS: from: Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536) / John Calvin

from: A Golden Chain (1591) ; from: The Art of Prophesying (1606 (1592)) / William Perkins

from: Examination of Perkins' Treatise on Predestination (1602) [online] ; from: The Synod of Dort (1619) / Jacobus (James) Arminius

from: The Marrow of Theology (1623) / William Ames

from: The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (1631) / Richard Sibbes [online]

from: The Honey-Combe of Free Justification (1642) / John Eaton [online].

B. A TRIAL OF SEPARATISM: from: A Treatise of Reformation without Tarrying for Any (1582) / Robert Browne

"Dispute with the Arminians" (from Wm Bradford) (ca. 1619) [online] ; Farewell Sermon (from Wm Bradford) (1620) ; from: "Certain Useful Advertisements" (1620) ; from: A Defense of the Doctrine Propounded by the Synod of Dort (1624) ; from: A Just and Necessary Apologie (1625) / John Robinson

II. BEFORE THE PILGRIMS: from: The Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall (1612) / Thomas Gates et William Strachey

from: Description of New England (1616) ; from: General History of Virginia (1624) / John Smith.

I. BEFORE AMERICA: from: General History of Virginia (1624) / John Smith

from: Good News from New England (1624) ; from: The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians (1649) / Edward Winslow

from: A Key into the Language of America (1643) / Roger Williams

from: Indian Dialogues (1671) / John Eliot.

Before America

Before the Pilgrims

A new church in a New England

A trial of separation

A greater migration

Congregationalist orthodoxy

After Zion, what?

Other regions, other voices. Virginia

Maryland

Pennsylvania and New Jersey

New Amsterdam

End of an era.

Notes:

VII. AFTERWORD: AWAKENING VERSUS ENLIGHTENMENT.

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ISBN:

9781602583016

1602583013

OCLC:

1287098202