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Puritan Profiles: 54 Influential Puritans at the Time When the Westminster Confession of Faith Was Written is unavailable, but you can change that!

The history of seventeenth century England was tumultuous. During this period England underwent a civil war, a regicide, an experiment with republican government, a restoration of monarchy and constant upheavals in politics and religion. As the century began, Puritans were poised against Episcopalians, Parliament against the forces of an absolutist monarchy and the question hung in the air—what...

generated these documents, although they are little known even to church historians, adds a human element to what can otherwise seem like mere propositions of theology. It is hoped that the biographical sketches contained in this book will first of all prove edifying, both by providing exemplary models of Christian commitment and also by stimulating greater interest in, and study of, the Westminster Confession and Catechisms themselves. My first challenge was to determine which of the members of
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