FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE: RICHARD MATHER'S FAREWELL -- BOOK I. DECLENSION -- I. THE WRATH OF JEHOVAH -- II. THE JEREMIAD -- III. THE PROTESTANT ETHIC -- IV. THE EXPANDING LIMITS OF NATURAL ABILITY -- V. HYPOCRISY -- VI. CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT -- VII. HALF-WAY MEASURES -- VIII. REVIVALISM -- IX. INTOLERANCE -- X. PROPAGANDA -- BOOK II. CONFUSION -- XI. PROFILE OF A PROVINCIAL MENTALITY -- XII. SALVAGING THE COVENANT -- XIII. THE JUDGMENT OF THE WITCHES -- XIV. THE DILEMMA OF THE SACRAMENTS -- XV. CONTENTION -- XVI. THE FAILURE OF CENTRALIZATION -- XVII. THE UNRESOLVED DEBATE -- XVIII. THE POISON OF WlSE'S CURSED LIBEL -- BOOK III. THE SPLINTERING OF SOCIETY -- XIX. A MEDIUM OF TRADE -- XX. ANTIMINISTERIAL SENTIMENT -- XXI. THE JUDGMENT OF THE SMALLPOX -- XXII. A SECULAR STATE -- XXIII. A TENDER PLANT -- BOOK IV. THE SOCIALIZATION OF PIETY -- XXIV. DO-GOOD -- XXV. REASON -- XXVI. THE EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY -- XXVII. THE DEATH OF AN IDEA -- XXVIII. POLITY AS A FORM OF PATRIOTISM -- EPILOGUE: VALE ATQUE AVE -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX.