I. Uprooting -- 1. Emergence of a Puritan faction -- Puritans and parliament / John Field and Thomas Wilcox -- Puritans and the king / Anonymous -- 2. Emergence of Puritan theology / William Ames -- 3. Puritanism curbed / The Court of High Commission -- 4. Reasons for forsaking England -- General considerations / John Winthrop -- Particular considerations / John Winthrop -- 5. Harried out of the land / Thomas Shepard.
III. The New England way -- 10. Setting up the Churches of Christ / Edward Johnson -- 11. Forms of public worship -- Church services / Thomas Lechford -- Puritan preaching / Thomas Hooker and Henry Wolcott -- 12. Conversion experience / Thomas Shepard -- 13. Church polity -- Principles of Congregationalism / The Cambridge Platform -- Problems of baptism and membership / The Synod of 1662 -- 14. Faith of the Puritan / The Synod of 1670-1680.
IV. The proper ordering of society -- 15. Theoretical foundations -- General and particular callings / William Perkins -- "A Modell of Christian Charity" / John Winthrop -- 16. Political order -- Boundaries of church and state / John Cotton -- Evolution of government / Israel Stoughton -- Format of a new colony / The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut -- Fundamentals of law / Laws and liberties of Massachusetts -- 17. Economic order -- A breach of economic ethics / John Winthrop -- Apologia / Robert Keayne -- 18. Social order -- Social restrictions / The Governments of New England -- "The well-ordered family? / Benjamin Wadsworth -- 19. Microcosm: The Puritan village / William Pynchon, et al.
II. First footholds in New England -- 6. Plymouth Plantation -- Pilgrim exodus / William Bradford -- Survival and success / Edward Winslow -- 7. Genesis of the Bay Colony -- Creation of the Massachusetts Bay Company / The Charter of 1629 -- Transfer of the charter / The Cambridge Agreement -- Problems of settlement / Thomas Dudley -- 8. Puritanism and the great migration / Thomas Tillam -- 9. God's favors to New England / Anonymous.
VIII. The erosion of Puritan hegemony -- 35. Growth of factionalism / John Woodbridge, Jr -- 36. God's controversy with New England / The Synod of 1679-1680 -- 37. Encroachments from England -- Report on Massachusetts / Edward Randolph -- The dominion of New England / Anonymous -- A new constitution / The Charter of 1691 -- 38. New direction sin Puritanism -- New definitions / Solomon Stoddard -- New congregations / The Brattle Street Church -- New organizations / The Saybrook Platform -- 39. Retrospect / Thomas Prince.
VI. Propagating the heritage -- 2. Schools in the wilderness -- Schools ordered / The General Court of Massachusetts -- Schools established / The Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts -- Schoolbooks / The New England Primer -- 28. Collegiate education -- Founding of Harvard / Anonymous -- Laws, liberties, and orders of Harvard / The Board of Overseers -- A second Puritan college / The Trustees of the Collegiate School -- 29. Uses of history and biography -- An elegy on John Cotton / John Norton -- Life of Theophilus Eaton / Cotton Mather -- 30. Attempts to Puritanize the heathen -- Eliot among the Indians / Anonymous -- "The Negro Christianized" / Cotton Mather.
VII. Attitudes toward the natural and supernatural -- 31. Remarkable salvations / Cotton Mather -- 32. Wonders of the invisible world -- Trial of a witch / The Essex County Court -- Retraction / The General Court of Massachusetts -- 33. Wonders of the human body -- In defense of inoculation / Increase Mather -- "The angel of Bethesda" / Cotton Mather -- 34. Wonders of the celestial world / Thomas Robie.
V. Troublers in Zion -- 20. Puritan theory of exclusion / John Cotton v. Richard Saltonstall -- 21. Morton of Merrymount / William Bradford, et al -- 22. Defection in the clergy / John Winthrop -- 23. Defection in the laity / Thomas Welde -- 24. A challenge to Puritan political control / Robert Child et al -- 25. Baptists / John Clarke -- 26. Quakers / The General Court of New Haven.