David A. Weir is professor of history at Nyack College in New York. His other book is The Origins of the Federal Theology in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Thought.
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Acknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations Explanation of Quotation Style and Terminology Introduction The European Background The Colonial Charters of Early New England The Civil Covenants of Early New England The Church Covenants of Early New England I: The Standing Order The Church Covenants of Early New England II: The Dissenters The Covenantal Confessions of Early New England: The Seeds of Diversity Conclusion Appendix 1 A Listing of Seventeenth-Century Towns, Churches, and Native American Praying Places in or Related to New England, Including a Checklist of Covenant and Foundational Activity, 1620-1708 Appendix 2 Typology of Early New England Local Civil Covenants, Arranged Chronologically Bibliographical Essay Notes Index
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"David Weir has given us the most detailed study of the civil and church covenants of colonial New England that we have ever had. Moving far beneath the reflections of the theologians, he shows us how the concept of covenant functioned among ordinary settlers attempting to live together in isolated and hazardous colonies. This is a thorough, judicious, and deeply informative book." E Brooks Holifield