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social reformers of his age
that our public thanksgiving may not be so vague as to fail of its object for want of apprehension of the grounds of it
enjoyed signal success
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1641 HENRY BURTON. Puritan Ears Cut Off for Advocating the Separation of Church and State. Miracles social reformers of his ageVery scarce tractate by radical Puritan, Henry Burton [1578 1648]. Just four years earlier, in 1637, Burton, and other radical Puritans William Prynne and John Bastwick, had his ears lopped off for publicly reproving Archbishop Laud. They were said to have been cut so close to the face that the temporal artery was struck so that he nearly bled to death. Released from prison in 1640, he returned immediately to the battle for religious liberty,