Orthodoxy In Massachusetts 1630-1650 BY PERRY MILLER WITH A NEW
PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR BEACON PRESS BEACON HILL BOSTON Copyright,
1933 By the President and Fellows of Harvard College Preface, 195Q
By Perry Miller First published as a Beacon Paperback in 1959 by
arrangement with the Harvard University Press Library of Congress
Catalog Card Number 59-10735 Printed in the United States of
America For PERCY HOLMES BOYNTON MAGISTRO ET AMICO Acknowledgments
PERHAPS the greatest pleasure of scholarship, from the standpoint
of the student, is the long list of friends he acquires by the
simple process of making them his benefactors. Of this long list I
wish in partic ular to memorialize the various important contribu
tions of Professors Percy Holmes Eoynton, Napier Wilt, T. V. Smith,
and William E. Dodd of the Univer sity of Chicago, Professors
Kenneth Ballard Murdock, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Francis Otto
Matthiessen of Harvard University, and Professor Stanley T.
Williams of Yale University. To the Library of Yale University I am
indebted for access to the Dexter Collection, to the Boston Public
Library for access to the Prince Collec tion, to the Congregational
Library of Boston for gen erously placing at my disposal its
remarkable collection of seventeenth century tracts, and to Mr.
Julius H. Tuttle and to the Massachusetts Historical Society for
much valuable assistance. Mr. D. H. Mugridge offered very helpful
criticism and Mr. Raymond P. Stearns helped materially with the
Dutch backgrounds. With out the aid of Mr. Alfred Stern and Mrs.
Moise Dreyfus this research could never have been undertaken. And
finally I am indebted to my wife for a vast amount of patient
labor, without which thevolume could never have materialized. P. M.
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS October i, 1933 Contents FOREWORD xi
PREFACE xvii I. SUPREMACY AND UNIFORMITY 3 II. DISCIPLINE OUT OF
THE WORD 15 III. SEPARATIST CONGREGATIONALISM 53 IV. NON-SEPARATIST
CONGREGA TIONALISM 73 V. A WIDE DOOR OF LIBERTY 102 VI. THE NEW
ENGLAND WAY 148 VII. THE SUPREME POWER POLITICKS 212 VIII.
TOLLERATING TIMES 263 BIBLIOGRAPHY 315 INDEX 321 Foreword UPON the
verge of publication I am fully conscious that in the work to be
offered I have treated in a somewhat cavalier fashion certain of
the most cher ished conventions of current historiography. I have
at tempted to tell of a great folk movement with an utter disregard
of the economic and social factors. I lay my self open to the
charge of being so very naive as to be lieve that the way men think
has some influence upon their actions, of not remembering that
these ways of thinking have been officially decided by modern psy
chologists to be generally just so many rationalizations
constructed by the subconscious to disguise the pursuit of more
tangible ends. In part I might take refuge behind the contention
that a specialized study is, after all, specialized, that other
aspects of the story can easily be found in other works. The field
of intellectual or religious history may, I presume, be considered
as legitimate a field for re search and speculation as that of
economic and political. But I am prepared actually to waive such a
defense and hazard the thesis that whatever may be the case in
other centuries, in the sixteenth and seventeenth certain men of
decisive importance took religion seriously that they often
followed spiritual dictates in comparative disre gard ofulterior
considerations that those who led the Great Migration to
Massachusetts and who founded the Xll FOREWORD colony were
predominantly men of this stamp. It has not been part of my
conscious intention either to de fend or to blame them, to praise
or to condemn their achievement. I have simply endeavored to
demonstrate that the narrative of the Bay Colonys early history can
be strung upon the thread of an idea. Immediately this statement is
made I encounter such authoritative rebuttal as that of Mr...
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