Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xii
A Note on the Text xiv
Introduction 1
Part I Rise and Retreat, c. 1540-c. 1630
1 The Seeds of Puritanism 9
2 Proto-Puritans in Exile 17
3 The Birth Pangs of Puritan England 26
4 The Elizabethan Puritan Political Movement 37
5 The Puritan Path to Heaven 50
6 Taming Puritanism 59
7 The Lure of the Atlantic 71
Part II Reformations, c. 1630-c. 1660
8 John Cotton Comes to Massachusetts 85
9 Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the 1630s 91
10 A Miraculous Year Goes Bad 114
11 The Wobbly Rise and Precipitous Collapse of Presbyterian England 130
12 Shaking out Antichrist in the 1650s 145
13 Consolidating Reformation in New England 165
14 Old England's Corruptions Come to New England 178
15 Waban's Reformation 193
Part III Twilight, c. 1660-c. 1689
16 English Puritanism under Persecution 203
17 English Puritanism Goes Public Again 218
18 Religious Pluralism Comes to Puritan New England 233
19 New England's Reformations Come of Age 241
20 New England's Puritan Autonomy Ends 251
Part IV Endings, 1689-1690s
21 Hopes Raised and Dashed 265
22 The Final Parting of the Ways for English Puritans 268
23 A Godly Massacre of the Innocents in Post-Puritan Massachusetts 280
Glossary 293
Endnotes 296
Index 340