Memorials of the Pilgrim Fathers |
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Author:
| Winters, William |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-23540-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $13.88 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTICES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. JOHN ELIOT AND HIS FRIENDS, OF NAZING. Collected From Original Sources. The life and labours of John Eliot, together with those of his Nazing associates, occupy no small space in the evangelical annals of New England. As a pioneer and reformer, Eliot stands prominent among...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTICES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. JOHN ELIOT AND HIS FRIENDS, OF NAZING. Collected From Original Sources. The life and labours of John Eliot, together with those of his Nazing associates, occupy no small space in the evangelical annals of New England. As a pioneer and reformer, Eliot stands prominent among the settlers and founders of the New World, surrounded and supported by a galaxy of Essex Nonconformists of the purest type. It is well known that there is no county in Old England that can claim precedence of Essex for honest and intrepid men, especially those of the Reformation age, who, for the sake of truth and liberty, endured the tortures of the rack and fagot; and others of a later period feared not to exercise the right of conscience and private judgment in things agreeable to their religious impressions, until, overcome by the heat of persecution, they were necessitated to cross the stormy Atlantic in search of a home in the dreary wilds of the far West. Prelatism then triumphed in its most potent form, and Sabbath sports received encouragement from King James, who, in 1617, expressed his pleasure in allowing the people to exercise themselves after Divine service on Sabbath days ( Oh, name it not in Gath ) in May-games, Whitson-ales, and Morris-dances, which, naturally enough, struck the more sober and conscientious clergy with horror, and which they severely censured. Such clergymen were deemed as being too religiously scrupulous, and tainted with Puritanism. In Martin Mar-Prelate's Dialogue, 1640, is a graphic description of what constituted a Puritan: ? A Puritan is he that for no meed, Will serve the time, and great men's humours feed, That doth the self-accusing Oaths refuse; That hates the Ale-house, and the Stage, and Stews. This...