The Elements of Puritanism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It would be easy to show how a variety of Puritan usages are thus the offshoot of a deep-seated antagonism to the sacerdotal theory of the ministry. Those who adhere to this theory, and those who play fast-and-loose with it, not distinctly knowing what they do hold, will find nothing to respect in the sturdy, unsparing protest of Puritanism. It cannot escape the student of English history that it was the Puritans who, as regards English Christianity, inflicted upon sacerdotalism a blow from which it has never recovered.

In the second place, the Puritan was the champion of the truth that Christian worship must be a reasonable service, that is, intelligent and spiritual.

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