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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...

insights and advice, even though most modern denominations have modified them over the years. Where did these documents come from, and how were they produced? The Westminster Assembly of Divines (or clergymen) was a group of one hundred and twenty-one English Puritan ministers, assisted by six Scottish commissioners and thirty laymen, ten from the House of Lords and twenty from the House of Commons. They met from July 1, 1643 to February 22, 1649, with an average of sixty to eighty in attendance,
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