Puritans in America

Alan Heimert is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University. Andrew Delbanco is the Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies and Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

• PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON EDITORIAL METHOD Introduction PART 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) PART 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 (1619) 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) PART 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) PART 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

By presenting Puritan sermons, reminiscences, poetry, and other writings in a chronological fashion, Heimert and Delbanco have captured the spirit of a vibrant New England, experiencing social, religious, and economic change. The editors’ brief introductions to many of the selections make this volume especially attractive to students of Puritan history and literature.