“The Bible, the Holy Scriptures, will never henceforward to any generation, in any part of the globe, be, or stand for, to individuals or groups of men and women, what is was to the early English Puritans.”

[Narrative and Critical History of America: English explorations and settlements in North America, 1497-1689, edited by Justin Winsor, 1889, vol. III, The Religious Element in the Settlemen of New England.—Puritans and Separatists in England by George E. Ellis, 219–243, https://books.google.com/books?id=NhBkAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA229, 1884, Houghton, Mifflin and Company] (quote from p. 229)

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