Theocracy in Massachusetts: Reformation and Separation in Early Puritan New England Book

	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Pursuit of Reformation the Origins of the Great Puritan Migration	15
I	Covenant and the Puritan Migration	16
II	The Role of the Laity in the Puritan Movement	25
III	Covenant and Social Reformation	30
IV	Migration and Separation	34
V	Migration and the Rhetoric of Persecution	40
VI	Migration as an Act of Social and Religious Reformation	48
Ch. 2	The Eschatology and Apocalypse of the Puritan Migration	59
I	The Eschatology of the Puritan Migration	61
II	Prophecy, Apocalypse and History	69
III	Thomas Brightman and the Millennium at Hand	79
IV	The Church and the Wilderness	102
Ch. 3	Reformation and Separation: Massachusetts' Relationship with England During the 1630s	117
I	Two Concepts of Liberty	119
II	Religion and the Colonization of New England	122
III	Reformation and Separation	133
IV	The "Call" to New England	141
V	The Struggle Over the Charter	153
VI	Covenant and Revolt	172
Ch. 4	Theocracy in the Wilderness: The Puritan Holy Experiment in New England	183
I	The Politics of Covenant	187
II	Covenant and Theocracy	190
III	Magistrates and the Pursuit of Religious Unity and Conformity	199
IV	The Struggle Against Heresy: The Antinomian Controversy	204
V	In Defense of Theocracy	209
VI	The Ministers' View of Church and State	215
VII	Theocracy and English Rights	219
VIII	Theocracy, Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy	224
IX	Magistrates as "Nursing Fathers and Mothers to the Church"	229
X	Theocracy in England and New England	235
XI	Theocracy and the Millennium	241
Ch. 5	Massachusetts and the Long Parliament During the 1640s	253
I	"New England's Tears for Old England's Feares"	257
II	Massachusetts' Commission to the Long Parliament	262
III	Massachusetts and Religious Reformation in England	271
IV	Crisis in the "City Upon the Hill"	279
V	Transfer of the Civil War to America	287
VI	"New England's Sence of Old Englands and Irelands Sorrowes"	293
VII	Social and Political Agitation in Massachusetts	295
VIII	Massachusetts and the Long Parliament	303
Ch. 6	Religious Toleration and Its Enemies: Orthodoxy in Old and New England	319
I	Reformation, Revolution and Order	322
II	Puritan Debates - Reformation, Separation and the Millennium	326
III	Puritan Rage for Order: "The Fast Sermons to Parliament"	338
IV	Religious Toleration and Its Enemies	347
V	Orthodoxy in England and New England	368
VI	The Essence of Puritan Orthodoxy	378
	Bibliography	395
	Index	427