| 1691 | "Old Men Tears for Their Own Declension." The Boston merchant offers a model jeremiad on the theme of the second-generation Puritans' failure to live up to the mission set by the first. |
| 1694 | A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusetts Colony Anno 1628.... Scottow recasts political and social events in the colony's history to form a spiritual narrative about the decline in religious piety and Puritan sense of mission. |
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