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... Puritan agitation . The apostolic ideal - which appeared both nebulous and irrational to philosophic churchmen like Richard Hooker - had been realized , after a fashion , in John Knox's Scottish Kirk , and , up into the 1640's , the ...
... Puritan agitation . The apostolic ideal - which appeared both nebulous and irrational to philosophic churchmen like Richard Hooker - had been realized , after a fashion , in John Knox's Scottish Kirk , and , up into the 1640's , the ...
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... Puritans conform or else harry them out of the land . About ninety Puritan clergymen were soon ejected from their livings . Some people moved to Hol- land ; and in 1620 the Mayflower carried its band of pil- grims to what Milton in his ...
... Puritans conform or else harry them out of the land . About ninety Puritan clergymen were soon ejected from their livings . Some people moved to Hol- land ; and in 1620 the Mayflower carried its band of pil- grims to what Milton in his ...
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... Puritan legalism . But there is nothing peculiarly Puritan in the conception , as one of countless witnesses , Bishop Lancelot Andrewes , may remind us : Fond men ! if He would quit His justice or waive His truth , He could ; but His ...
... Puritan legalism . But there is nothing peculiarly Puritan in the conception , as one of countless witnesses , Bishop Lancelot Andrewes , may remind us : Fond men ! if He would quit His justice or waive His truth , He could ; but His ...
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Introduction CONTENTS | 7 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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