CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON EDITORIAL METHOD -- Introduction -- 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) -- 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 (1629) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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 (c. 1685) -- FIVE: COMING OF AGE -- The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints -- Samuel Sewall, Diary (1675-1727) -- Samuel Sewall, Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica (1697) -- Edward Taylor, Poems (c. 1680-1725) -- Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (1693-1702) -- Cotton Mather, Reserved Memorials (1681-1724) -- Cotton Mather, Agricola (c. 1725) -- Witchcraft -- Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) -- Susanna Martin, Examination of Susanna Martin (1692) -- Mary Easty, Petition of Mary Easty (1692) -- Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1697) -- Politics and Society -- Gershom Bulkeley, Will and Doom (1692) -- John Wise, A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches (1717) -- Jeremiah Dummer, A Defense of the New England Charters (1715) -- A New Style.

Benjamin Colman, Practical Discourses on the Parable of the Ten Virgins (c. 1705) -- SIX: THE DISPERSION OF THE NEW ENGLAND WAY -- Joseph Morgan, The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah (1715) -- Solomon Stoddard, An Examination of the Power of the Fraternity (c. 1715) -- Samuel Johnson, "My Present Thoughts of Episcopacy" (1719,1722) -- Benjamin Franklin, Dogood Paper No. 4: On the Higher Learning (1722) -- John Bulkeley, Preface to Roger Wolcott, Poetical Meditations (1725) -- Afterword -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX.