1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Missionary on the whole

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God's People must Enquire of Him to bestow the Blessings Promised in His Word

flowed out of that singular legislative idea

Le Nouveau Testament de Notre Seigeur Jesus-Christ

1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Missionary on the wholeVery rare title by Benjamin Wadsworth [1670 1737], an influential Colonial era American Puritan who pastored concurrently and was friends with Cotton Mather. Edmund S. Morgan, one of the most important American Puritan scholars, notes the present work as one of the most influential and signficant documents articulating the puritan ethic of home and family in its original theological and devotional context. Probably not as a coincidence, the same year