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1648 | Responsio ad Guliel. Norton, a leading opponent of the Antinomians, a drafter of the Cambridge Platform, and the pastor of the First Church of Boston, offers a Latin treatise on New England church governance. |
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1653 | A Discussion of that Great Point in Divinity, the Sufferings of Christ. Norton, a prolific writer and Puritan clergyman who succeeded John Cotton as pastor of First Church in Boston, mounts an attack on the heresy of William Pynchon, who denied that Christ suffered the torment of hell. |
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1654 | The Orthodox Evangelist. Norton's most famous work is an important theological treatise endorsed by John Cotton, who had provided a prefatory epistle. |
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1658 | Abel Being Dead Yet Speaketh; or, The Life and Death of... John Cotton. This is the first separately published biography in America. |
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1659 | The Heart of N-England Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation. Another of Norton's works dealing with theological controversies in which he expresses his opposition to Quakers and advocates the death penalty. |
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1664 | Three Choice and Profitable Sermons Upon Severall Texts of Scripture. This is the final, and posthumously published, collection of Norton's religious writing, containing "Sion the Out-cast,"
"The Believer's Consolation," and "The Evangelical Worshipper." |
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1747 | The Redeemed Captive. A captivity narrative detailing the trials and tribulations of Norton's capture by a French and Indian war party during King George's War in 1746. Upholding the traditional Puritan belief that God delivers the true Christian from heathens and papists, Norton's tale is one of the most famous examples of the genre. |
