The Puritans A Sourcebook of Their Writings

by Miller, Perry; Johnson, Thomas H.

• ISBN13: 9780486416014
• ISBN10: 0486416011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-03
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture."

Table of Contents

General Introduction
The Puritan Way of Life	1	(63)
The Puritan in His Age	1	(4)
The Spirit of the Age	5	(14)
Puritan Humanism	19	(22)
The Essential Issue	41	(14)
Estimations	55	(9)
The Puritans as Literary Artists	64	(17)
History	81	(100)
William Bradford	90	(27)
History of Plymouth Plantation	91	(26)
Thomas Shepard	117	(5)
A Defence of the Answer	118	(4)
Francis Higginson	122	(3)
New Englands Plantation	123	(2)
John Winthrop	125	(18)
Journal: The Landing at Salem	126	(3)
The Antinomian Crisis	129	(14)
Edward Johnson	143	(19)
Wonder-working Providence	143	(19)
Cotton Mather	162	(19)
A General Introduction	163	(18)
The Theory of the State and of Society	181	(100)
John Winthrop	194	(13)
A Modell of Christian Charity	195	(4)
A Defence of an Order of Court	199	(3)
Journal	202	(3)
Speech to the General Court	205	(2)
John Cotton	207	(7)
Letter to Lord Say and Seal	209	(3)
Limitation of Government	212	(2)
Roger Williams	214	(11)
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution	216	(8)
Letter to the Town of Providence	224	(1)
Nathaniel Ward	225	(12)
The Simple Cobler of Aggawam	226	(11)
Jonathan Mitchell	237	(6)
Nehemiah on the Wall	237	(6)
William Stoughton	243	(3)
New-Englands True Interest	243	(3)
William Hubbard	246	(4)
The Happiness of a People	247	(3)
Samuel Willard	250	(6)
The Character of a Good Ruler	250	(6)
John Wise	256	(14)
Vindication	257	(13)
John Barnard	270	(7)
The Throne Established by Righteousness	270	(7)
Jonathan Mayhew	277	(4)
A Discourse concerning Unlimited Submission	277	(4)
This World and the Next	281	(98)
Thomas Hooker	290	(24)
A True Sight of Sin	292	(9)
Meditation	301	(5)
Wandering Thoughts	306	(3)
Repentant Sinners and Their Ministers	309	(5)
John Cotton	314	(20)
Swine and Goats	314	(2)
Hypocrites and Saints	316	(2)
Wading in Grace	318	(1)
Christian Calling	319	(8)
Purchasing Christ	327	(7)
Increase Mather	334	(16)
Predestination and Human Exertion	335	(5)
Man Knows Not His Time	340	(8)
Sleeping at Sermons	348	(2)
Urian Oakes	350	(17)
The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence	350	(17)
Joshua Moody	367	(2)
Souldiery Spiritualized	367	(2)
Samuel Willard	369	(7)
Saints Not Known by Externals	369	(2)
The Death of a Saint	371	(3)
Degenerating New England	374	(2)
Samuel Sewall	376	(3)
Phaenomena	376	(3)
Notes	xix
Bibliographies	xxix
Manners, Customs, and Behavior	379	(80)
John Smith	395	(6)
The Sea Marke	395	(1)
Advertisement for the Unexperienced Planters	396	(5)
Thomas Lechford	401	(2)
Plain Dealing	401	(2)
Jasper Danckaerts	403	(8)
Journal	404	(7)
Increase Mather	411	(2)
An Arrow against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing	411	(2)
John Dunton	413	(12)
Letters	414	(11)
Sarah Kemble Knight	425	(22)
The Journal of Madam Knight	425	(22)
Joseph Green	447	(3)
Extracts from Diary	448	(2)
Cotton Mather	450	(3)
The Accomplished Singer	451	(2)
Solomon Stoddard	453	(6)
An Answer to Some Cases of Conscience	454	(5)
Biographies and Letters	459	(86)
John Winthrop	465	(6)
Letters of the Winthrops	465	(6)
Thomas Shepard	471	(4)
Autobiography	471	(4)
Roger Williams	475	(14)
Letters	475	(14)
Increase Mather	489	(7)
The Life of Richard Mather	489	(7)
Cotton Mather	496	(15)
Life of John Eliot	497	(14)
Samuel Sewall	511	(19)
Diary	511	(19)
John Williams	530	(6)
The Redeemed Captive	530	(6)
Ebenezer Turell	536	(9)
Benjamin Colman	536	(5)
Jane Turell	541	(4)
Poetry	545	(120)
John Wilson	552	(3)
The London Plague	553	(2)
The Bay Psalm Book	555	(6)
Psalms	556	(5)
Anne Bradstreet	561	(19)
Spring	562	(2)
Contemplantions	564	(6)
The Flesh and the Spirit	570	(3)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	573	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband	573	(1)
Meditations	574	(5)
Longing for Heaven	579	(1)
Nathaniel Ward, John Rogers, and John Norton	580	(5)
On Mrs. Bradstreet's Tenth Muse (Ward)	580	(1)
Upon Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (Rogers)	581	(2)
A Funeral Elogy (Norton)	583	(2)
Michael Wigglesworth	585	(45)
A Prayer	586	(1)
The Day of Doom	587	(19)
A Short Discourse on Eternity	606	(2)
A Song of Emptiness	608	(3)
God's Controversy with New-England	611	(5)
Meant Out of the Eater	616	(8)
Light in Darkness	624	(2)
Strength in Weakness	626	(1)
Poor Men's Wealth	626	(2)
Heavenly Crowns for Thorny Wreaths	628	(2)
Edward Johnson	630	(1)
Two Epitaphs	630	(1)
Samuel Bradstreet and Daniel Russell	631	(4)
Two Almanac Poems	632	(3)
Benjamin Tompson	635	(5)
New Englands Crisis	636	(4)
Urian Oakes	640	(10)
An Elegy	641	(9)
Edward Taylor	650	(6)
Poetical Works	652	(4)
Preparatory Meditations	656	(1)
Roger Wolcott	656	(661)
Poetical Meditations	657	(1)
A Brief Account of Winthrop	658	(3)
Mather Byles	661	(4)
An Hymn to Christ	663	(2)
Literary Theory	665	(30)
The Bay Psalm Book	669	(3)
The Preface	670	(2)
Thomas Hooker	672	(1)
A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline	672	(1)
Michael Wigglesworth	673	(5)
The Prayse of Eloquence	674	(4)
Cotton Mather	678	(2)
Psalterium Americanum	678	(2)
John Bulkley	680	(4)
Wolcott's Poetical Meditations	681	(3)
Cotton Mather	684	(5)
Of Poetry and Style	684	(5)
Mather Byles	689	(6)
Bombastic and Grubstreet Style	68	(627)
Education	695	(34)
New Englands First Fruits	700	(4)
In Respect of the College	701	(3)
Charles Chauncy	704	(3)
A Commencement Sermon	705	(2)
Leonard Hoar	707	(7)
Letter to His Nephew	708	(6)
Thomas Shepard, Jr	714	(6)
Letter to His Son	715	(5)
Increase Mather	720	(1)
A Presidential Address	721	(1)
Cotton Mather	721	(8)
An Elegy on Ezekiel Cheever	722	(2)
Some Special Points Relating to Education	724	(5)
Science	729	(36)
Samuel Danforth	738	(1)
An Astronomical Description	738	(1)
John Winthrop, Jr	739	(3)
Letter concerning Some Natural Curiosities	740	(2)
Leonard Hoar	742	(2)
Letter to Robert Boyle	742	(2)
Noadiah Russell and William Williams	744	(3)
Concerning Lightning and Thunder	744	(1)
Concerning the Nature of Comets	745	(2)
Paul Dudley	747	(3)
Method of Making Maple Sugar	747	(1)
Method for Discovering where Bees Hive	748	(2)
Cotton Mather	750	(8)
The Christian Philosopher	750	(8)
Thomas Brattle	758	(4)
The Witchcraft Delusion	758	(4)
Zabdiel Boylston	762	(3)
The Way of Proceeding in Small Pox	763	(2)
Notes	765	(12)
Bibliographies	777	(42)
Index	819