History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization (1922) (14760648256)

Identifier: historyofpilgrim01sawy (find matches)
Title: History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway, b. 1849 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Puritans Massachusetts -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York, Century History Co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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VIII. The English heart, craving worship and direct com-munication with the Creator, was distraught, and yearnedfor the truth. Untrammeled religious teachers, fosteredespecially in Emmanuel College, not only thought but talked,in lecture room, market-place, gravel pit, street corner, andhome, of an open Bible and prayer and praise without thepriestly clan. In derision they were called Puritans, butthe name was a veritable boomerang to the coiners, as ittypified, in the Nonconformist, qualities of higher gradethan those seen in the average Englishman of that day. Hugh Latimer fearlessly, but in courtesy to royalty, onbended knee, gave Henry VHI the New Testament, supple-menting the act with copious draughts of Wyclifs teachingsand gleanings from the Book of Books. This must havedisturbed the papal monarchs conscience, and may haveled him to influence Charles V of Spain, nephew of Cathe-rine of Aragon, to quench the flames that threatened Lutherslife. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 33
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