THE NEW ENGLAND THEOCRACY. A HISTORY OF THE CONGREGATIONALISTS IN NEW ENGLAND TO THE REVIVALS OF 1740 BY H. F. UHDEN. WITH A PREFACE BY THE LATE DR. NEANDER. Translated from the Second German Holtian BY H. C. CONANT, AUTHOR OF "THE ENGLISH BIBLE," ETC. ETC. BOSTON: GOULD AND LINCOLN, 59 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK: SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & CO.. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by GOULD AND LINCOLN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY W. F. DRAPER, ANDOVER, MASS. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. Ir is a singular fact, that the New England Theocracy has found no historian on our own shores. A subject so rich in interest, so intimately connected with our history as a people, it would seem should long since have busied some master-hand among ourselves. The record of this great experiment of our Puritan fathers, among the most unique and instructive in ecclesiastical history, is here for the first time presented for our study, as a connected whole, by a foreign scholar. This circumstance is, however, a ground rather of congratulation than regret; for the conflicting interests, germinated in the stormy infancy of New England, have still too much vitality, and have spread their roots |