Puritan Children in Exile: The Effects of the Puritan Concepts of the Original Sin, Death, Salvation, and Grace Upon the Children and Grandchildren of the Puritan Emigrants Leading to the Collapse of the Puritan Period

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Heritage Books, 2002 - 283 pages
Although the focus centers on Puritan beliefs about the place of children and the parenting practices provided for these disenfranchised children, the basic concepts and motivations of Puritanism are explained and examined with insight and detail. J2009HB - $29.84

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Contents

Chapter One History of the Concept
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Chapter Three Church Membership Visible
29
Chapter Five Puritan Sins and Biblebased
43
Chapter Seven Puritan Burials in
77
Chapter Nine Collapse of the Puritan Period
97
Chapter Ten Covenants of Grace
105
Chapter Eleven Literal Interpretation of
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Chapter Twelve Children Adolescents
131
Chapter Thirteen Psychological Social
151
Chapter Fourteen A Summary of Findings
163
Appendix
195
Bibliography
253
Notes footnotes
265
Index
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Page 24 - Withhold not correction from the child : for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Page 195 - A. The word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct ua how we may glorify and enjoy him.
Page 74 - You sinners are, and such a share As sinners may expect, Such you shall have; for I do save None but mine own elect. Yet to compare your sin with their, Who lived a longer time, I do confess yours is much less, Though every sin's a crime.
Page 199 - Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a Low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.
Page 204 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
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Page 120 - Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. 5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

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