The American Puritans, Their Prose and Poetry, 17. numberPerry Miller Columbia University Press, 1956 - 346 pages Perry Miller's classic one-volume anthology of Puritan writings recreates the world of seventeenth-century New England through a judicious selection of tracts, journals, sermons, and poetry by the major Puritan writers: William Bradford, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, and Edward Taylor among them. |
Contents
HISTORY | 1 |
2 THOMAS SHEPARD A Defense of the Answer | 20 |
3 EDWARD JOHNSON WonderWorking Providence of Sions Savior | 28 |
4 JOHN WINTHROP Journal | 36 |
5 JOHN WINTHROP The Antinomian Crisis | 48 |
6 COTTON MATHER A General Introduction | 59 |
STATE AND SOCIETY | 78 |
2 JOHN COTTON Limitation of Government | 84 |
7 URIAN OAKES The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence | 191 |
8 SAMUEL SEWALL Phaenomena | 213 |
9 COTTON MATHER Bonifacius | 215 |
10 SOLOMON STODDARD Concerning Ancestors | 221 |
PERSONAL NARRATIVE | 225 |
2 INCREASE MATHER Richard Mather | 230 |
3 SAMUEL SEWALL Diary | 240 |
4 JOHN WILLIAMS The Redeemed Captive | 256 |
3 THOMAS HOOKER Hartford Election Sermon | 88 |
4 JOHN WINTHROP Speech to the General Court | 89 |
5 NATHANIEL WARD The Simple Cobler of Aggawam | 93 |
6 JONATHAN MITCHELL Nehemiah on the Wall | 108 |
7 WILLIAM STOUGHTON New Englands True Interest | 112 |
8 WILLIAM HUBBARD The Happiness of a People | 116 |
9 JOHN WISE Vindication of the Government of New England Churches | 121 |
10 JONATHAN MAYHEW A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission | 137 |
THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT | 143 |
2 PETER BULKELEY The Lesson of the Covenant for England and New England | 149 |
3 THOMAS HOOKER A True Sight of Sin | 152 |
4 THOMAS HOOKER Repentant Sinners and Their Ministers | 165 |
5 JOHN COTTON Christian Calling | 171 |
6 INCREASE MATHER Man Knows Not His Time | 182 |
POETRY | 265 |
2 ANNE BRADSTREET Meditations | 275 |
3 MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH The Day of Doom | 282 |
4 MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH Gods Controversy with New England | 294 |
5 EB A Threnodia | 300 |
6 EDWARD TAYLOR Gods Determinations Touching His Elect | 301 |
7 EDWARD TAYLOR Poems and Sacramental Meditations | 309 |
LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL IDEALS | 320 |
2 NEW ENGLANDS FIRST FRUITS | 322 |
3 MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH The Praise of Eloquence | 328 |
4 COTTON MATHER Of Style | 333 |
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