Stith, William. History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia. Williamsburg, 1747. London, 1753. New York, 1865. Keith, Sir William. History of Virginia [to 1723]. London, 1738. [Depends chiefly on Beverley.] B. The Carolinas Lawson, John. See Bibliography to Book I., Chap. I. Hewatt [Hewat, Hewitt, Hewit], Alexander. Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. 2 vols. London, 1779. [1st ed. anonymous.] Philadelphia, 1836. In Carroll, Historical Collections of South Carolina. C. The Middle Colonies Smith, Samuel. History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jersey. Burlington, N. J., 1765. Trenton, 1877. [Contains a note on Samuel Smith by Smith, J. J.J History of the Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. [The portion dealing with Pennsylvania in Hazard, Register of Pennsylvania, vols. 6-7.] Smith, William. History of the Province of New York . . . to 1732. London, 1757, 1776. Philadelphia, 1792. Albany, 1814. Paris, 1767. Complete ed. to 1762, New York Hist. Soc. Col. Series I. Vols. 4-5. [Smith's work has provoked much discussion. Cadwallader Colden criticized it at length. See New York Hist. Soc. Colls. Ser. 2, vol. 2, 1849. Fund ser. 1868, 1869. Another critic was Samuel Jones, whose Remarks are in New York Hist. Soc. Colls. vol. 3, 1821. A fair estimate was made by B. F. Butler in an address before the Albany Institute, April, 1830. See also a sketch of Smith in Magazine of Amer. Hist. Apr.-June, 1881, by M. L. Delafield.] D. New England Prince, Thomas. A Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals. 2 vols. Boston, 1736-55, 1826, 1852. Vol. 2, as Annals of New England in Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., Ser. 2. Vol. 7. Douglass, William. Summary . . . of the Planting . . . and Present State of the British Settlements in North America. 2 vols., 1749, 1751. Backus, Isaac. History of New England with Particular Reference to the . Baptists. 3 vols. Boston, 1777, 1784, 1796. West Newton, Mass., 1871. Hutchinson, Thomas. The History of Massachusetts. 3 vols. Boston and London, 1764-1767-1828. Vols. I and II. Boston, 1795. Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson with an Account of his Adminis. tration. Ed. Hutchinson, P. O. 2 vols. Boston, 1884-86. The Hutchinson Papers. 2 vols. Albany, 1865. Prince Society. [Not written by Hutchinson but collected by him, and taken from the large collection of his papers preserved in the archives of the Mass. Hist. Society.] Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of Hosmer, J. K. Life of Thomas Hutchinson. Boston, 1896. CHAPTER III THE PURITAN DIVINES, 1620-1720 It is not possible within the compass of the present work to give a full bibliography of the New England divines. It has seemed best, therefore, to give a VOL. 1-25 fairly adequate list of the writings of the better known men, supplemented by important contemporary material in biography and criticism, as well as later suggestive titles. In making selection of the writers to be treated, the editor has been guided mainly by the political significance of the men-a consideration which has entailed the omission of influential ministers like Thomas Shepard, Charles Chauncy, John Wilson, John Norton, and John Davenport, of the emigrant generation; and of Benjamin Colman, Benjamin Wadsworth, Solomon Stoddard, and Samuel Willard, of the native generations. How greatly the bibliography would be added to if these men were included, becomes evident from a glance at such a work as Evans' American Bibliography. Of the four last named there were published in America alone, prior to 1730, 186 titles, including Willard's Compleat Body of Divinity, in two hundred and fifty expository Lectures, the first folio of divinity, and the largest work till then published in America. The emigrant generation was greatly hampered by the lack of an adequate press near at hand; but with the development of such a press, the quantity of output was enormously increased, and during the days of Puritan decline, New England rather than old England was the prolific home of theological controversy. The difficulties of making a bibliography of the field are very great, and in spite of the many special studies by various scholars drawn upon, it is scarcely to be hoped that numerous errors will not have crept in; care has been taken, however, to make it as trustworthy as possible. A few titles of general authorities are included by way of suggestion. GENERAL AUTHORITIES Dexter, Henry M. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in its Literature. With a Bibliographical Appendix. 1880. (An excellent history and indispensable for its bibliographical information.) Masson, David. Life of Milton. 6 vols. London, 1859-1880. (Valuable for the English backgrounds of Puritanism.) Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana. London, 1702. Hartford, 2 vols., 1820, 1853. (An indispensable source-book, but not reliable.) Sprague, W. B. Annals of the American Pulpit. 1857. Vols. I and VI. Tyler, M. C. A History of American Literature during the Colonial Period. 2 vols. 1897. Walker, Williston. A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States. 1900. American Church History, vol. III. (Contains an excellent bibliography of criticism.) Winsor, Justin. Memorial History of Boston. 4 vols. Boston, 1880-86. I. JOHN COTTON (1585-1652) The following list of Cotton's writings has been compiled from the British Museum Catalogue, Winsor's Catalogue of the Prince Library, Dexter's Collections toward a Bibliography of Congregationalism, and Evans' American Bibliography; supplemented from various other sources. A. Separate Works (1) Gods Promise to his Plantation. 2 Sam. 7.10. Etc. London, 1630, 1634. Boston, 1686. Reprinted in Old South Leaflets, no. 53 and New. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. II. See Mead in Biography and Criticism. (2) How far Moses Judicialls bind Mass[achusetts]. Printed with introd. by W. C. Ford, in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. Sec. Series, 16, 274-284. Assigned by the ed. to 1636 [?], and believed to be a copy of Moses his Judicials. (3) A Letter from Mr Cotton to Lord Say and Seal in the Year 1636. Printed in Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. Bay, I, 496–501. (4) An Abstract of the Lawes of New England as they are now established. London, 1641, 1655. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. First Series, V, 173; in Force Tracts, III, 1844; and by the Prince Soc. 1865. [See no. 2 above.] (5) A coppy of a letter of Mr Cotton of Boston in New England, sent in answer of certaine objections made against the discipline and orders there. [London], 1641. (6) Gods Mercie mixed with his Justice: or, his peoples deliverance in time of danger laid open in severall sermons. London, 1641. [See no. 44.] (7) The Way of Life. Or, Gods way and course, in bringing the Soule into the wayes of life and peace. London, 1641. In the Prince Library Cat. the title is given thus: The Way of Life. In foure Treatises. The pouring out of the Spirit, Sins deadly wound, The Christians Charge, the life of Faith. London, 1641. (8) A Brief Exposition of the whole Book of Canticles . . . a Work very usefull and seasonable to every Christian: but especially such as endeavour and thirst after the setling of Church and State according to the Rule and Pattern of the Word of God, etc. London, 1642, 1648, 1655. (9) The Churches Resurrection, or the Opening of The Fift and sixt verses of the 20th Chap. of the Revelation. London, 1642. (10) The Doctrine of the Church, to which are committed the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven. [London], 1642. Second ed. same year. Third ed. "according to a more exact copy . . and some few proofes and wordes added, etc." London, 1643. Another form, Questions and Answers upon Church Government, in a Treatise of Faith, etc., [?, 1713?] in Yale Univ. Lib. gives date, "begun 25. 11 M. 1634." (11) A Modest and Cleare Answer to Mr. Balls Discourse on set formes of Prayer. London, [1642.] (12) The Powring out of the Seven Vials; or an Exposition of the 16. Chapter of the Revelation, with an Application of it to our Times, etc. [London] 1642, 1645. (13) The True Constitution of a particular visible Church proved by Scripture, etc. London, 1642. (14) Discourse about civil government in a new plantation whose design is Religion. [London], 1643. Re-issued with a slightly different title. Cambridge, 1663. [Assigned to J. Davenport by C. Mather. the title page.] (15) A Letter . . . to Mr Williams That those ought to be received into the Church who are Godly, though they doe not see, nor expressly bewaile all the pollutions in Church-fellowship, Ministery, Worship, Government. London, 1643. Reprinted, with introd. by R. A. Guild, in Narr. Club. Pub. 1, 287–311. (16) The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power thereof, according to the Word of God . . . tending to reconcile some present differences about Discipline, etc. London, 1644. Re-issued the same year, [minor variations in the title-page]. Boston, 1852. (17) Sixteene questions . . . propounded unto Mr John Cotton, of Boston in New England. Together with his Answers to each Question. London, 1644. [See no. 20.] (18) The Covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded, etc. London, 1645. (19) The Way of the Churches of Christ in New-England, or the Way of Churches walking in Brotherly equalitie, etc. London, 1645. [This and The Keyes were replied to in 1645, in a tract, Vindiciae Clavium manifesting . . . the Middle-way (so called) of Independents, to be the Extreme, or By-way of the Brownists, etc.] (20) A Conference at Boston With the Elders of New-England, With The Difference between the Christian and Antichristian Church. [The latter by F. Cornwell.] London, 1646. [Another version of no. 17.] (21) The Controversie concerning liberty of conscience in matters of Religion truly stated. . . by way of answer to some arguments... sent unto him [by Roger Williams], etc. London, 1646, 1649. Cotton's name is on (22) Milk for Babes drawn out of the Breasts of both Testaments, chiefly for the spirituall nourishment of Boston babes in either England, etc. London, 1646. Reprinted in Cambridge 1656, with title, Spirituall Milk for Boston Babes in either England. Drawn out of the Breasts of both Testaments for their souls nourishment. But may be of like use to any children. London, 1668. Boston, 1690. With Indian translation by Grindal Rawson, Cambridge, 1691. Included in the Indiane Primer, Boston, 1720. (23) Severall Questions of Serious and necessary Consequence, Propounded by the Teaching Elders unto Mr. J. C. . . with his respective Answers to each Question. [London], 1646, 1647. [See nos. 17 and 20 above. The questions seem to have excited great interest in England, as the different forms under which the original work was re-issued, testify.] (24) A treatise of Mr Cottons, clearing certaine doubts concerning Predestination. Together with an examination thereof. . . by W. Twisse. London, 1646. [The title is deceptive; the work does not contain Cotton's treatise.] (25) The Bloudy Tenent, Washed, And made white in the bloud of the Lamb: being discussed and discharged of bloud-guiltinesse by just Defence . . . Whereunto is added a Reply to Mr. Williams Answer, to Mr. Cottons Letter. London, 1647. (26) The Grounds and Ends of the Baptisme of the children of the Faithfull, etc. London, 1647. (27) A Reply to Mr. Williams his Examination; And Answer of the Letters sent to him by John Cotton. London, 1647. Reprinted, with introd. by J. L. Diman, Narr. Club Pub. II, 1-240. [See no. 25.] (28) Singing of Psalmes, a Gospel-Ordinance. London, 1647, 1650. (29) Ad Lectorem Praefatio Apologetica. Prefixed to J. Norton's Responsio ad Totam Quaestionem, etc. [London] 1648. (30) The Way of Congregational Churches cleared: in two treatises: etc. London, 1648. [Some copies bound with Hooker's Survey, with a general title.] (31) A Platform of Church discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon in the Synod at Cambridge in New-England. Etc. Cambridge, 1649. [Probably the joint work of Cotton and R. Mather.] (32) Christ the fountaine of life, etc. London, 1650. (33) Of the Holinesse of Church Members. London, 1650. (34) Letter to the "Lord General Cromwell." 1651. Prince Soc. Pub. 1: 262-265. See Cromwell's Letter to Cotton. New Hamp. Hist. Soc. Col. I. (35) Verses, prefixed to S. Stone's Congregational Church is a Catholike Visible Church. 1652. (36) A Briefe Exposition upon... Ecclesiastes. London, 1654. Sec. ed. "Corrected." 1657. (37) Certain Queries Tending to Accommodation and Communion of Presbyterian & Congregationall Churches. London, 1654. (38) The New Covenant, or, manner of giving and receiving of the Covenant of Grace to the Elect. The substance of sundry Sermons. London, 1654. (39) The Result of a Synod at Cambridge, concerning The Power of Magistrates [and] Synods; etc. London, 1654. (40) The Covenant of Grace Whereunto are added: Certain Queries tending to Accommodation Also, A Discussion of the Civill Magistrates Power in matters of Religion. London, 1655. [A general title covering the three tracts issued the preceding year.] (41) An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation. London, 1655, 1656. (42) A Practicall Commentary . . with observations . upon the First Epistle Generall of John. London, 1656. 2d ed. "Inlarged," 1658. (43) A Defence From the imputation of Selfe Contradiction, charged on him by Dan: Cawdrey. Oxford, 1658. [Prefixed is J. Owen's Answer to Cawdrey about Schisme.] (44) The Saints Support & Comfort in The Time of Distress and Danger, With divers other Treatises, etc. [A re-issue under different title of no. 6.] (45) A Treatise of The covenant of Grace, As it is dispensed to the Elect Seed. The substance of divers Sermons. London, 1659. [A 2d ed., under different title, of no. 18.] (46) A Sermon preached . . . at Salem. 1636. To which is prefixed, a Retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism. Boston, 1713. (47) A Treatise. I. Of Faith. II. Twelve . . . articles of Christian religion. III. A doctrinal conclusion. IV. Questions & Answers upon Church-government. [Boston], 1713. (48) In manuscript. Notes of Cotton's sermons, preserved by I. Mather. Also, sermons. In Amer. Antiquar. Soc. Lib., Worcester, Mass. B. Biography and Criticism Considerable biographical material will be found in Winthrop's Journal. For Cotton's position in the Mrs. Hutchinson case, fairly full records have been preserved in accounts of the trial, in Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. Bay, II, Appendix 2, 482-520; and in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. Sec. Series, 4, 159–191. A suggestive discussion is given in C. F. Adams' Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, Part II, The Antinomian Controversy. See also the Cotton Papers, in the Prince Library, listed in Winsor's catalogue, 150. No satisfactory life of Cotton has been written. A censure of . . J. C., lately of New-England upon the way of Mr Hendon; expressed in some animadversions of his upon a letter of Mr Hendons, sometimes sent to M Elmeston, etc. [Two other parts.] London, 1656. Blenkin, G. B. Boston, England, and John Cotton in 1621. N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg. 28. Brooks, William Gray. John Cotton, "The Father of Boston.' [With portrait.] Cawdrey, Daniel. The Inconsistencie of the Independent way, With Scripture, and It Self. . . . I. Vindiciarum with Mr. Cotton. Etc. London, 1651. Clarke, Sam. Lives of Ten Eminent Divines. London, 1662. Ellis, Geo. E. John Cotton in Church and State. International Review. 1880. Emerson, Wm. An Historical Sketch of the 1st Church in Boston, from its formation to the present period, etc. Boston, 1812. Ford, W. C. John Cotton's Moses, his judicials and abstract of the Laws of New England. Cambridge, 1902. Reprinted from Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. Gray, F. C. Remarks on the Early Laws of Mass. Bay, etc. 3 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. VIII. [A Consideration of Cotton's share in forming the Body of Liberties.] Hubbard, Rev. Wm. General History of New England. Chapters, 37-40. 2 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. v. 1870. Maclure, A. W. Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England. Vol. I. Mead, Edwin D. John Cotton's Farewell Sermon to Winthrop's Company at Southampton. 3 Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. I, 101-115. Norton, John. The Life and Death of the deservedly Famous Mr. John Cotton, the late Reverend Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in New England. Collected out of the Writings and Information of . . . John Davenport . . Samuel Whiting, etc. Cambridge, 1657. Reprinted, London, 1658, with the title: Abel being dead yet speaketh; or, the life and death of . . . John Cotton, etc. Re-issued as Memoirs of John Cotton, with preface and notes by E. Pond. 1842. |