Methods and Terms; Introduction; PART I: THE PEACE TESTIMONY; Prologue; 1. And the Shout of a King Is amongst Us -- 2. A Killinge Instrument We May neither Forme, nor Beare: The Peace Testimony; 3. Fire at the Mast: The Practice of Peace; PART II: NEW ENGLAND; 4. Bold Boyes and Blasphemers: Quakers in Early New England; 5. The Habitation of the Hunted-Christ: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; 6. Times of Motion and Danger: Reacting to Fear of War, 1667-1673; 7. Fighting against the Minde of God: The 1673 Exemption
8. ""Sin and Flesh"": The New England Tribes: Englishmen and IndiansPART III: WAR; 9. ""Midnight Shrieks and Soul-Amazing Moanes"": The Rhode Island Government and King Philip's War; 10. ""A Bulit out of Everi Bush"": War, Continued; 11. ""To Looke to Our Selefs"": Ascribing Motives to a Quaker Government in Wartime; 12. ""Witnesses to the Life of Innocency"": A Testimony from Rhode Island Quakers; 13. ""Run the Hazard"": The Individual Quaker in King Philip's War; 14. ""The Rectification of the Heart"": Around the Periphery of War; 15. ""All Things Have Their Beginnings""
Appendix 1. The 1660 DeclarationAppendix 2. The 1673 Exemption; Appendix 3. The Rhode Island Testimony; Appendix 4. ""The Taste of the World in Our Own Mouths"": Problems of Historical Interpretation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary
This text investigates the historical context, meaning and expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and its colonies. The text focuses primarily on King Philip's War, which allowed New England Quakers to define their peace testimony
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-339) and index
