The case of Mrs. Hutchinson is treated, from a hostile and somewhat truculent point of view, in Thomas Welde’s pamphlet entitled A Short Story of the Rise, Reign, and Ruin of Antinomians, Familists, and Libertines that infected the Churches of New England, London, 1644.  It was answered in an anonymous pamphlet entitled Mercurius Americanus, republished for the Prince Society, Boston, 1876, with prefatory notice by C.H.  Bell.  Cotton’s view of the theocracy may be seen in his Milk for Babes, drawn out of the Breasts of both Testaments, London, 1646; Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven; and Way of the Congregational Churches Cleared, London, 1648.  See also Thomas Hooker’s Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline, London, 1648.  The intolerant spirit of the time finds quaint and forcible expression in Nathaniel Ward’s satirical book, The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam, 1647.

For the Gorton controversy the best original authorities are his own book entitled Simplicitie’s Defence against Sevenheaded Polity, London, 1646; and Winslow’s answer entitled Hypocracie Unmasked, London, 1646.  See also Mackie’s Life of Samuel Gorton, Boston, 1845, and Brayton’s Defence of Samuel Gorton, in Rider’s Tracts, No. xvii.

For the early history of the Quakers, see Robert Barclay’s Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth, London, 1876,—­an admirable book.  See also New England a Degenerate Plant, 1659; Bishop’s New England judged by the Spirit of the Lord, 1661; Sewel’s History of the Quakers, 1722; Besse’s Sufferings of the Quakers, 1753; The Popish Inquisition newly erected in New England, London, 1659; The Secret Works of a Cruel People made Manifest, 1659; and the pamphlet of the martyrs Stevenson and Robinson, entitled A Call from Death to Life, 1660.  John Norton’s view of the case was presented in his book, The Heart of New England Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation, London, 1660.  See also J.S.  Pike’s New Puritan, New York, 1879; Hallowell’s Pioneer Quakers, Boston, 1887; and his Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, Boston, 1883; Brooks Adams, The Emancipation of Massachusetts, Boston, 1887; Ellis, The Puritan Age and Rule, Boston, 1888.

Some additional light upon the theocratic idea may be found in a treatise by the apostle Eliot, The Christian Commonwealth; or, the Civil Polity of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ, London, 1659.  An account of Eliot’s missionary work is given in The Day breaking, if not the Sun rising, of the Gospel with the Indians in New England, London, 1647; and The Glorious Progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England, 1649.  See also Shepard’s Clear Sunshine of the Gospel breaking forth upon the Indians, 1648; and Whitfield’s Light appearing more and more towards the Perfect Day, 1651.