Shortcomings of the Puritan church, and Reorganization of society. By Jerome B. Holgate ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781418194543
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: PURITANISM was a protest against errors in doctrine, and a purification of the church from an ostentatious ritual; but in its anxiety to establish Evangelical Christianity, it went off in another direction, and lugged in many things equally useless, absurd, and calculated to inflict upon the church serious and grievous wounds.