At the House of Mr Frog
Malcolm Gaskill: Puritanism, 18 March 2021
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History
by David D. Hall.
Princeton, 517 pp., £20, May 2021,978 0 691 20337 9 Show More
by David D. Hall.
Princeton, 517 pp., £20, May 2021,
The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
by Stephen Tomkins.
Hodder, 372 pp., £12.99, February 2021,978 1 4736 4911 8 Show More
by Stephen Tomkins.
Hodder, 372 pp., £12.99, February 2021,
“... defined their mentality as ‘the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy’. They held themselves and other puritans to severe account, an obsession they grew into a social vision. They were hard on sin and hard on the causes of sin; they urged magistrates and ministers to join forces, to wield the sword in the service of scripture. But, as ... ”