2 Jonathan Mitchell, “Sermons from Psalms,” n.d., MAHS; quoted in Morgan, Puritan Family, 15.

3 Boston Sermons, 14 Jan. 1672, MAHS, as quoted in Morgan, Puritan Family, 143.

4 John Cotton, The Covenant of God’s Free Grace (London, 1645), 19-20.

5 William Stoughton, New Englands True Interest, Not to Lie (Cambridge, 1670), 33.

6 Stowe, Oldtown Folks, 1102.