Part I: Rise and retreat, c.1540-c.1630. The seeds of Puritanism
The birth pangs of Puritan England
The Elizabethan Puritan political movement
The Puritan path to heaven
The lure of the Atlantic.
Part II: Reformations, c.1630-c.1660. John Cotton comes to Massachusetts
Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the 1630s
A miraculous year goes bad
The wobbly rise and precipitous collapse of Presbyterian England
Shaking out Antichrist in the 1650s
Consolidating reformation in New England
Old England's corruptions come to New England
Part III: Twilight, c.1660-c.1689. English Puritanism under persecution
English Puritanism goes public again
Religious pluralism comes to Puritan New England
New England's reformations come of age
New England's Puritan autonomy ends.
Part IV: Endings, 1689-1690s. Hopes raised and dashed
The final parting of the ways for English Puritans
A godly massacre of the innocents in post-Puritan Massachusetts.
