VI. Struggling toward the Millennium: War, Smallpox, Witchcraft

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Note on the Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Quotations xviii
6. I. A Covenanted Childhood 1
7. II. Harvard College 23
8. III. The Call of the Gospel and the Loss of the Charter 57
9. IV. From Vision to Bereavement 106
10. V. Witchcraft and Revolution 143
11. VI. Struggling toward the Millennium: War, Smallpox, Witchcraft 174
12. VII. Two Brands, Two Deaths, and a Sadducee 223
13. VIII. The Lord’s Remembrancer: The Value of Historical Uncertainty 250
14. IX. Suffering and Doing: The Mystery of Particular Faiths and Deaths 270
15. NOTES INDEX
16. Notes 313
17. Index 347