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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...

good humor helped the Assembly to start aright. Reid comments concerning his writings: He often affords considerable entertainment to his reader, by the vivacity of his genius, and the sharpness and elegance of his wit. He sometimes uses jocose or historical diversions, to animate the spirits of his readers, and to preserve them from weariness.8 John Owen, even while opposing his view that God could have forgiven sin without satisfaction, referred to Twisse with great respect: ‘This great man; our
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