Very rare articulation of how the New England revivalism of the 1740's spiritually empowered the Colonists to identify as a theocratic community distinct from the Crown of King George and to pursue independence from Great Britain . . really as an extension of the Civil War of 1643 in England and the Scottish Presbyterian desire for a National Covenant so that the foundation of America was not one of religious liberty, but of religious purity enforced from the pulpit and legislature; views the 1740 revivals through the lens of reinvigorating that vision. Fascinating and rare work with no other copies on the market.
Contents include: background of theological independence under the puritan dissenters, the Leyden Congregation, John Robinson, Emigration to America, Missionary Efforts among the Indians, Roger Williams as Resistance against the Theocracy, Anne Hutchinson, Rhode Island, Anabaptists and Re-Baptizers of Germany, First Arrival in Boston and Capital Punishment Introduced, Suppression of Internal Opposition to the Theocratic Government, Half-Way Covenant, Witch Trials, Revivals of 1740 a Reaction to Indifferentism, etc.,
Uhden, H. F. The New England Theocracy. A History of the Congregationalists in New England to the Revivals of 1740. Boston. Gould and Lincoln. 1859. 303pp.
Fair only; ex-library copy with sound contents and a broken binding missing the backstrip with both boards barely attached. Exceptionally rare on early American revivalism and its connection to the American political forces in motion at the time.