The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 by Robert Middlekauff

Author:Robert Middlekauff [Middlekauff, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Historical, United States, Leaders & Notable People, Religious, Christian Books & Bibles, History, Americas, State & Local, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, test
Amazon: B007CJLZAG
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

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churches of New England would soon need all the support they could get from other nonconforming bodies in England. He would not concede at first that in receiving it, they would compromise their claims to a pure, scriptural organization. Hence he welcomed the union of Congregationalists and Presbyterian ministers in London that his father helped form in 1691. This league, the United Brethren, joined ministers in consulting organizations and did not include the laity. Both Mathers looked upon it as not only an expression of the Christian spirit but as a device to oppose the Church of England. 20

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