187612
9780061312274
The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.Morgan, Edmund S. is the author of 'Puritan Family Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England', published 1942 under ISBN 9780061312274 and ISBN 0061312274.
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