17 Norman Pettit, The Heart Prepared; Grace and Conversion in Puritan Spiritual Life (New Haven, 1966); Philip F. Gura, A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory; Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620-1640 (Middletown, Conn., 1984), 50.

18 Cotton Mather, Bonifacius, ed. David Levin (1710, rpt. Cambridge, 1966), 64-65. An excellent discussion of the Puritan idea of love appears in Stephen Foster, Their Solitary Way (New Haven, 1971), 41-64.