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Documents of Anglophone Christianity
Documents of Anglophone Christianity.
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Before America -- Before the Pilgrims -- A new church in a New England -- A trial of separation -- A greater migration -- Congregationalist orthodoxy -- After Zion, what? -- Other regions, other voices. Virginia -- Maryland -- Pennsylvania and New Jersey -- New Amsterdam -- End of an era -- Awakening versus Englightenment. |
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I. BEFORE AMERICA: from: General History of Virginia (1624) / John Smith -- from: Good News from New England (1624) ; from: The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians (1649) / Edward Winslow -- from: A Key into the Language of America (1643) / Roger Williams -- from: Indian Dialogues (1671) / John Eliot. |
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II. BEFORE THE PILGRIMS: from: The Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall (1612) / Thomas Gates & William Strachey -- from: Description of New England (1616) ; from: General History of Virginia (1624) / John Smith. |
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III. A NEW CHURCH IN A NEW ENGLAND. A. OLD WORLD ORIGINS: from: Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536) / John Calvin -- from: A Golden Chain (1591) ; from: The Art of Prophesying (1606 (1592)) / William Perkins -- from: Examination of Perkins' Treatise on Predestination (1602) [online] ; from: The Synod of Dort (1619) / Jacobus (James) Arminius -- from: The Marrow of Theology (1623) / William Ames -- from: The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (1631) / Richard Sibbes [online] -- from: The Honey-Combe of Free Justification (1642) / John Eaton [online]. -- B. A TRIAL OF SEPARATISM: from: A Treatise of Reformation without Tarrying for Any (1582) / Robert Browne -- "Dispute with the Arminians" (from Wm Bradford) (ca. 1619) [online] ; Farewell Sermon (from Wm Bradford) (1620) ; from: "Certain Useful Advertisements" (1620) ; from: A Defense of the Doctrine Propounded by the Synod of Dort (1624) ; from: A Just and Necessary Apologie (1625) / John Robinson -- from: New England's Plantation (1630) / Francis Higginson -- from: "Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removal ..." (1622) / Robert Cushman -- from: Mourt's Relation (1622) -- from: Good News from New England (1624) / Edward Winslow -- from: Of Plymouth Plantation (1857 (1608-1648)) / William Bradford -- from: The New English Canaan (1637) / Thomas Morton -- The Salem Covenants (1629, 1636) -- Letter to the Town of Norwich (1636) / Michael Metcalfe [online]. -- C. A GREATER MIGRATION: The Charlestown-Boston Covenant (1632) -- from: "Christian Experience" (1636) ; "Reasons for Forsaking England"/"Farewell" (1629) ; from: "The Humble Request" (1630) [online] ; from: "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) ; from: Journal History of New England (1630-1649) ; from: A Short Story of ... the Antinomians (1644) / John Winthrop -- from: The Memoir of Captain Roger Clapp (1731 (1640)) / Roger Clapp -- "Letter to His Former Parishioners" (1632) / Thomas Weld -- from: Letter to John Winthrop (1636) ; from: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution (1644) ; from: The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652) / Roger Williams -- from: The Poor Doubting Christian (1629) ; from: The Application of Redemption (1656 (1636-1638)) ; from: The Soul's Ingrafting (1637) / Thomas Hooker -- from: Autobiography (and Journal) (1832 (1639)) ; from: Lay Narratives (1637-1648) ; from: The Sound Believer (1652 (1634-1635)) ; from: Parable of the Ten Virgins (1660 (1636-1638)) ; from: Preface to Defense of the Answer (1648) / Thomas Shepard -- from: The Gospel Covenant (1646, 1651) / Peter Bulkeley -- from: "A Brief History of the Dedham Church" (1638) / John Allin -- from: A Brief Exposition of the Whole Book of Canticles (1642 (1621-1623)) ; from: The Way of Life (1641) ; from: Christ the Fountain of Life (1651) ; from: "God's Promise to His Plantations" (1630) ; from: The New Covenant (1654 (1635-1636)) ; from: Mr. Cotton's Rejoinder (1637) ; from: The Bloody Tenet Washed (1647) ; from: The Church's Resurrection (1642) / John Cotton -- from: "A Fast-Day Sermon" (1637) ; from: Mercurius Americanus (1645) / John Wheelwright -- from: The Trials of Anne Hutchinson, Civil Trial (1637) -- from: The Trials of Anne Hutchinson, Church Trial (1638) -- from: The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam (1645) / Nathaniel Ward -- from: Abel Being Dead Yet Speaketh (1658) ; from: The Orthodox Evangelist (1654) ; from: "Sion the Outcast Healed of Her Wounds" (1661) / John Norton -- from: The Saints Anchor-Hold (1661) / John Davenport -- from: The Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Savior (1654) / Edward Johnson -- from: the Bay Psalm Book [officially, The Whole Book of Psalms, Faithfully Translated ...] (1640) -- from: "Contemplations" ; from: The Tenth Muse (1650) ; from: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (1678) ; "To My Dear Children" (1867) ; from: "Meditations Divine and Moral" (1867) ; "... Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House (1666)" (1867) ; "As Weary Pilgrim, Now at Rest" (1867) / Anne Bradstreet -- from: "New England's Tears for Old England's Fears" (1640) / William Hooke. -- D. CONGREGATIONALIST ORTHODOXY: from: Letter to Salem (1636) ; from: Letter to the Lord Say and Sele (1636) ; from: Keys to the Kingdom (1644) / John Cotton -- from: Survey of the Summe ... (1645) / Thomas Hooker -- from: Simplicities Defense (1646) / Samuel Gorton -- from: The Childe Petition (1646) -- from: The Cambridge Platform (1646-1648) -- from: Responsio (1648) ; from: The Heart of New England Rent (1659) / John Norton -- from: "Ill News from New England" (1652) / John Clarke -- "To the Governor of Massachusetts Protesting the Baptists' Treatment" (1651) / Roger Williams. |
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IV. AFTER ZION, WHAT?: from: Result of the Half-Way Synod (1662) -- from: "An Apologetical Preface" (1662) / Increase Mather -- from: "Another Essay ..." (1662) / John Davenport -- from: An Answer to the Apologetical Preface (1662) / Jonathan Mitchell -- from: "A Defence of the Answer and Arguments of the Synod Met at Boston in the Year 1662 ... (1662) / Richard Mather -- from: "The Day of Doom" (1662) ; from: "God's Controversy with New England" (1662) / Michael Wigglesworth -- from: "Nehemiah on the Wall" (1667) / Jonathan Mitchell -- from: "New England's True Interest" (1668) / William Stoughton -- from: New England's Memorial (1669) / Nathaniel Morton -- from: "The Happiness of a People" (1676) ; from: General History of New England (1680) / William Hubbard [online] -- from: The Mystery of Israel's Salvation (1669) ; from: "The Day of Trouble Is Near" (1674) ; from: A Brief History of... King Philip's War (1676) [online] ; from: "A Call to the Rising Generation" (1678) ; from: The Necessity of Reformation (1679) [online] ; from: An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684) ; from: The Order of the Gospel (1700) / Increase Mather -- from: "New England Pleaded With" (1673) ; [online] from: "The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence" (1677) / Urian Oakes -- from: "New England's Errand into the Wilderness" (1670) / Samuel Danforth -- from: "Eye-Salve" (1672) / Thomas Shepard, Jr. -- from: Narrative of Her Captivity and Redemption (1682) / Mary White Rowlandson -- from: The Redeemed Captive (1707) / John Williams -- from: "The Only Sure Way to Prevent Threatened Calamity..." (1682) ; from: "The Character of a Good Ruler" (1694) [online] ; from: The Peril of the Times Displayed (1700) [online] ; from: A Complete Body of Divinity (1726 (1687-1707)) / Samuel Willard -- "Upon the Sweeping Flood" (1683) ; "Upon a Wasp Chilled" [online] ; "Huswifery" [online] ; "The Ebb and Flow" ; "Upon Wedlock and the Death of Children" ; from: Gods Determinations Touching His Elect (1682) ; from: Preparatory Meditations ; from: Treatise Concerning the Lord's Supper (1694) / Edward Taylor -- from: Christographia (1701-1703) / Edward Taylor II [online] -- from: Upon the Types of the Old Testament (1693) / Edward Taylor -- from: "Result" of the Reforming Synod of 1679 -- from: A Narrative of the Planting of the New England Colony (1694) / Joshua Scottow -- from: Election Sermon (1689) [online] ; from: Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) ; from: Magnalia Christi Americana (1702 (1698)) / Cotton Mather -- from: More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700) / Robert Calef -- from: Diary (1674-1729) ; from: Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica (1697) ; from: "The Selling of Joseph" (1700) / Samuel Sewall -- from: The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Christ (1687) / Solomon Stoddard I [online] -- from: The Doctrine of the Instituted Churches (1700) / Solomon Stoddard. |
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V. OTHER REGIONS, OTHER VOICES. A. VIRGINIA: from: Our Savior's Divine Sermon on the Mount (1722) / James Blair -- from: A Good Conversation (1707) [online] ; from: Narrative of the New and Unusual American Imprisonment of Two Presbyterian Ministers (1707) / Francis Makemie -- from: The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) / Robert Beverley -- from: The Secret Diary (1709ff.) ; from: The History of the Dividing Line (1728ff.) / William Byrd II [online]. -- B. MARYLAND: from: A Relation of Maryland (1635) ; An Act Concerning Religion (1649) / Andrew White. -- C. PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY: from: The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of New Caesarea, or New Jersey (1664) -- from: Some Reasons and Causes of the Late Separation (1692) / George Keith [online] -- from: Primitive Christianity in the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers (1696) / William Penn -- from: An Apology for the True Christian Divinity ... (1703) / Robert Barclay -- from: A Journal, or Historical Account of the ... Work of the Ministry (1709) / George Fox -- from: A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the Synod at Philadelphia (1722) / Jonathan Dickinson -- from: A Clear Demonstration (1731) / Theodore Frelinghuysen. D. NEW AMSTERDAM: from: Letter to Smoutius (1628) / Jonas Michaelius. |
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VI. END OF AN ERA: The Brattle Street Church Manifesto (1699) -- from: Gospel Order Revived (1700) ; from: Practical Discourses upon the Parable of the Ten Virgins (1707) / Benjamin Colman -- Massachusetts Proposals (1705) -- from: "A Sermon for the Reformation of Manners" (1716) [online] ; from: "Some Observations on the New Method of Receiving the Small-Pox ..." 1721) / Benjamin Colman [online] -- Saybrook Platform of Connecticut (1708) -- from: An Appeal to the Learned (1710) ; from: "The Efficacy of the Fear of Hell" (1713) [online] ; from: "The Defects of Preachers Reproved" (1723) / Solomon Stoddard [online] -- from: The Churches Quarrel Espoused (1710) [online] ; from: Vindication of the ... New England Churches (1717) / Jonathan Wise -- from: Bonifacius (1710) ; from: The Christian Philosopher (1721) ; from: Manuductio Ad Ministerium (1726) / Cotton Mather [online] -- Revisionism and Immaterialism at Yale -- from: "My Present Thoughts on Episcopacy ... (1719) ; from: Noetica (1752) / Samuel Johnson -- from: "Notes on the Mind" (1716ff.) / Jonathan Edwards -- from: "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity (1725) ; from: Autobiography (1771ff.) / Benjamin Franklin -- from: "The People of New England" (1730) / Thomas Prince. |
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VII. AFTERWORD: Awakening versus Englightenment. |
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"Anthologizes English-language religious writings of Christianity in the early American era"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Church history |
| Genre/form | Sources |
| LCCN | 2020945850 |
| ISBN | 9781602583016 |
| ISBN | 1602583013 |
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