Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 The Last Decades of Puritan Boston, 1663-1674 1
The Pastor's Study 1
Home School and Catechism 5
Ezekiel Cheever and the Latin School 12
2 Cambridge: City of Books in the Republic of Letters, 1674-1681 15
Saving Harvard 15
The Bible in Logick 19
Stammerer in the Library 23
The Eclectic American Scholar 27
3 Listening for a Call, 1681-1688 30
Closure with the Lord Jesus Christ 30
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction 31
Angelic Encounters 32
Accepting Vocations 35
Healer of Whole Persons 38
Historian of Demon Possession 41
4 Entanglements of Church and State, 1688-1698 47
Friendships, Fellowship, and Neighbors 47
April 18, 1689: Eleutherians in Revolt 52
The Protestant Interest 58
The Devil in Salem 63
The Levitation of Margaret Rule 67
American Historian and Boston Ebenezer 72
5 The Birth of the American Evangelical Tradition, 1698-1707 78
The Evangelical Interest Tugs at the Protestant Interest 78
An All-Day-Long Faith 87
Charles Morton, the Spirit of Man, and Sanctification 91
"God Threw My Daughter in the Fire" 94
Thwarted from the Presidency of Harvard 98
6 A Biblical Enlightenment, 1707-1713 106
Defining "Enlightenment" 106
Eat This Book 108
Was Nebuchadnezzar a Werewolf? 116
Humanitarian Acts and Institutions, Freedom, and Liberty 123
"The Month That Devoured My Family" 127
7 The Practice at the Top of Christianity, 1713-1728 130
Winter Piety 130
An Accomplished Singer 137
A Burning Bush 143
Acknowledgments and Bibliography 146
The Cotton Mather Trail: A Walking Tour in Boston Connected to the Freedom Trail 152
Index 159
