Abridged from 1.2 million words in 4 volumes to 260K words in one volume.
Our Puritan ancestors were mighty in the things of God. We are little aware of the debt of gratitude which we owe to these defenders of civil and religious liberty – that trial by jury is the law of the land, that the press is free, that we are governed by laws which we help to make, that life and liberty are respected, and above all that we can quietly and peaceably worship God according to the dictates of conscience – we owe to the Puritans.
660 pages.
History of the Puritans, The: From the Reformation in 1517 to the Revolution in 1688 (Abridged) is in the following collections:
