1644 SAMUEL RUTHERFORD. The Way of the Church of Christ in New England. America Should be Presbyterian. Puritan till that time in which

till that time in which these forlorn creatures breathe their last in the service of

and church buildings

a few excerpts

Very rare original autograph on Union envelope of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth

1644 SAMUEL RUTHERFORD. The Way of the Church of Christ in New England. America Should be Presbyterian. Puritan till that time in whichA fair copy of a very desirable work in which Samuel Rutherford attempts to argue against the Congregationalism of New England, via John Robinson's important work issued before his death in 1625, and in interaction with John Cotton, etc., Many of the Puritan emigrants to America [including more moderate Presbyterians] from England felt the Conservative Pro National Covenant wing of the Westminster Assembly had simply replaced the Pope and the Prelate