Contents * xv 640 James Otis (1725-1785) 640 from The Discourse of Nature and Government 641 Anna Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783?) 641 On the Immensity of Creation 642 Philip Freneau (1752-1852) 642 On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature 643 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 643 from The Age of Reason 643 Chapter I, The Author's Profession of Faith 645 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) 648 from Images of Divine Things 650 On Sarah Pierrepont 651 from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God 656 Personal Narrative 666 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 677 Elizabeth Ashbridge (1715-1755) 678 from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, . . . Written by her own Hand many years ago 689 John Woolman (1720-1772) 692 from The Journal of John Woolman 703 from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes 709 Francisco Palou ( 1723-1789) 710 Life of Junipero Serra 710 from Chapter XXII, The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey The Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded 713 from Chapter LVIII The Exemplary Death of the Venerable Father Junipero 719 A Sheaf of Eighteenth-century AngloAmerican Poetry 723 Ebenezer Cook (1667-1733) 723 The Sot-weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, &c. 741 Susanna Wright (1697-1784) 742 To Eliza Norris-at Fairhill