The Puritans in America

A Narrative Anthology

Edited by Alan Heimert

Edited by Andrew Delbanco

    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

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Alan Heimert is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University.

Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Among his many publications are The Puritan Ordeal and The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (both from Harvard).