The experience and meaning of God's caress -- Thinking of the laity in the English Reformation -- Lay Puritans in Stuart England -- Gatherings of the saints in England and the Netherlands -- Shaping the New England way -- The free grace controversy and redefining the role of lay believers -- The role of the laity in England's Puritan revolution -- Varieties of lay enthusiasm in New England and England -- Responding to the challenges of diversity, 1640-1660 -- Clergy and laity in the later seventeenth century -- Looking backwards, and ahead.
