THE

LIVES

OF

THE PURITANS.

VOL. I.

HUGHES, PRINTER, MAIDEN-LANE, COVENT-GARDEN.

DIVINITY

SCHOOL

THE

LI V ES

OF

THE PURITANS:

CONTAINING

A BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THOSE DIVINES WHO

DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES IN THE CAUSE

OF

Religious Liberty,

FROM THE REFORMATION UNDER QUEEN ELIZABETH,
TO THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY,

IN 1662.

BY BENJAMIN BROOK.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY

IN THREE VOLUMES.

HARYARO

VOL. I.

The memory of the just is blessed.-SOLOMON.

The precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved, by
the PuritANS ALONE; and it was to this Sect that the English owe the whole
freedom of their constitution.-HUME.

London:

PRINTED FOR JAMES BLACK,

YORK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.

1813.