Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 7
A Generation Later... 9
The Search Begins 13
1 Christ-bearer 25
2 In Peril on the Sea 40
3 "If Gold Be Your Almighty" 54
4 Blessed Be the Martyrs 70
5 The Lost Colony 84
6 Garboil 105
7 "Damn Your Souls! Make Tobacco!" 120
8 To the Promised Land 137
9 "God Our Maker Doth Provide" 156
10 Thy Kingdom Come 182
11 A City upon a Hill 198
12 The Puritan Way 211
13 The Pruning of the Lord's Vineyard 234
14 God's Controversy with New England 254
15 As a Roaring Lion 269
16 A Sunburst of Light 293
17 When Kings Become Tyrants 309
18 "No King but King Jesus!" 319
19 "If They Want to Have a War ..." 337
20 "The Great Spirit Protects That Man!" 350
21 "Give 'Em Watts, Boys!" 362
22 "We Have Restored the Sovereign" 381
23 Crucible of Freedom 391
24 "The World Turned Upside Down" 410
25 "Except the Lord Build the House ..." 425
The Search Ends 446
Appendix 1 The Mystery of the Lost Colony 452
Appendix 2 The Christian Faith of George Washington 456
Appendix 3 The Christian Faith of Other Founding Fathers 463
Source Notes 476
Bibliography 491
Index 505