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Part I. Rise and retreat, c. 1540-c. 1630 : 1. The seeds of Puritanism 2. Proto-Puritans in exile 3. The birth pangs of Puritan England 4. The Elizabethan Puritan political movement 5. The Puritan path to heaven 6. Taming Puritanism 7. The lure of the Atlantic Part II. Reformations, c. 1630-c. 1660 : 8. John Cotton comes to Massachusetts 9. Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the 1630s 10. A miraculous year goes bad 11. The wobbly rise and precipitous collapse of Presbyterian England 12. Shaking out Antichrist in the 1650s 13. Consolidating reformation in New England 14. Old England's corruptions come to New England 15. Waban's reformation Part III. Twilight, c. 1660-c. 1689 : 16. English Puritanism under persecution 17. English Puritanism goes public again 18. Religious pluralism comes to Puritan New England 19. New England's reformations come of age 20. New England's Puritan autonomy ends Part IV. Endings, 1689-1690s : 21. Hopes raised and dashed 22. The final parting of the ways for English Puritans 23. A godly massacre of the innocents in post-Puritan Massachusetts