Edited Introduction David Hall (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. Paperback 1993. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref D612. Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England. A Documentary History 1638-1692.

Hardcover. viii, 447 p.; 23.5 cm. The 12 documents, on p. 24-437, are followed by Bibliographical note and Index. Contents: Introduction -- 1 Letters between Thomas Shepard and John Cotton -- 2 Peter Bulkeley and John Cotton: on union with Ghrist -- 3 John Cotton, Sixteene questions of serious and necessary consequence -- 4 The elders reply -- 5 Mr. Cottons rejoynder -- 6 John Wheelwright, A fast-day sermon -- 7 John Cotton, A conference.held at Boston -- 8 John Winthrop, A short story of the rise,reign,and ruine of the antinomians,familists & libertines -- 9 The examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the court at Newtown -- 10 A report of the trial of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson before the church in Boston -- 11 Proceedings ofthe Boston church against the exiles -- 12 John Cotton, The way of Congregational churches cleared -- Bibliographical note -- Index -- 'Though his opponents may have agreed to tolerate Cotton's theology, it was their own synthesis of moralism, activism, and voluntaryism that came to prevail in New England. In this sense the Antinomian Controversy was a turning point in the religious ideas of the colonists. But the Controversy was not the point at which New England left the mainstream of the Reformed tradition. The Antinomianism of Anne Hutchinson was the real departure, for it prefigured the radical stance of the Quakers. The New England ministers, on the other hand, remained officially faithful to the Westminster Confession for a hundred years. When the liberal movements of the 18th century reached New England, they had to do battle with Jonathan Edwards. .and in his Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, Edwards quoted more from Thomas Shepard than from any other writer.' (p. 20) VG orig. marbled brown boards in lt. edgeworn dj.