Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-330) and index
Introduction : an old man's tears for godly republicanism -- The rise and bleeding fall of Elizabethan godly republicanism -- The separatist beginnings of Congregationalism and Presbyterianism -- James I and a new crisis of antichristian power -- The triumphs and trials of the Lord's free people -- Christian liberty at Plymouth Plantation -- Separatism at Salem? -- The appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism -- Designing a godly republic -- A city on a hill -- Godly republicanism's apocalypse
