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1 Daniel Neal & Joshua Toulmin, The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Nonconformists from the Reformation in 1517 to the Revolution in 1688 (rev., cor., and enl.) i (1844)

handle is hein.religion/htypurprot0001 and id is 1 raw text is: NEAL'S HISTORY OF THE PURITANS. THE HISTORY OF THE PURITANS, OR PROTESTANT NONCONFORMISTS; from the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688 ; comprising an Account of their Prm- ciples ; their Attempts for a farthe Reformixation in the Church ; their Sufferings ; and the Lives and Characters of their most considerable Divines. By DAnEL NEAL, A.M. Re- printed from the Text of Dr. TooLMIN's Edition: with his Life of the Author and Account of his Writings. Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, with additional Notes by JoLs 0. COOULEs, A.M. With Nine Portraits on Steel. In two Volumes, 8vo. Complete in Eight Numbers at 25 Cents each, TuE publishers of Neal's History of the Puritans, under the editorial care of Rev. J. 0. CiHOULEs, have great pleas- ure in submitting to the pubic extracts from a large number of commnuications which they are constantly recesving from the most distingushed men in ou country in relation to this valuable work. OPINIONS. The REV. LEONARD BACON, D.D., of New-Haven, writes: ' Neal's History of the Puritans' is a work of great industry and research. The author wrote, indeed, with an un- disguised sense of the injuries which the Puritans and their successors, the Nonconformists, had suffered fruim the Engish government ; and his narrative is, therefore, to be considered as ex parte. It differs from any history of the Puritans which a writer on the other side would produce, very much as a history of England written by an Engishman would differ from a history of England written by a Frenchman. Yet the attempts which have been made to iipugn its authority have not been successful. Few works of so great an extent, and including so many details, have better sustained the assauits of hostile criticism. Subsequent investigations, continued with great zeal for more than a cen- tury, have detected its errors, and have shown the power of party feelings on the author's judgment ; but errors more serious have been detected in Home's more complete and classical history ; and in respect to the influence of partisan- ship upon the story, the little finger of Clarendon is thicker than the loins of Neal. No man can be really acquainted with the history of England since the Reformation, till he has read, marked, and inwardly digested the history of the .Puritans. I am glad to be informed that a new edition is about to be offered to the public ; and if the notes to be added are written, as I hope they will be, in that free, historic spirit which, though difficult, is more possible to us at this distance of time and place than it was in England a century ago, they will greatly increase the value of this second American edition. The REV. HEMAN HUMPHREY, D.D., President of Amherst College, writes thus to Mr. Thoules: I am happy to learn that you have undertaken to prepare an edition of Neal's History of the Puritans. At any time and wider any circumstances, such an offering would not fail of being highly acceptable to the descendants of those heroic witnesses for the truth, and for the simple forms of Gospel worship, who were deposed, imprisoned, and put to death under the bloody Mary, and scarcely less cruelly treated under her besotted and imperious successor. But the menacing attitude of popery, the encroachments of Puseyism, and the lofty claims which are now set up by other advocates of high church principles and ceremonies, will make the offering doubly acceptable. It is due to those great and good men, the Puritans of the 16th century, who, ' their enemies being judges,' were the firmest friends of civil and religious liberty, that the record of their sufferings for conscience' sake should be handed down to the latest posterity ; and it is especially incumbent upon the sons of the Puritans in this land, to keep every successive genera- tion of their children advised of the principles and sacrifices of those their immortal ancestors: 'The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.' The REV. DANIEL SHARP, D.D., says: I read ' Neal's History of the Puritans' thirty years ago, and I have a vivid recollection of the information and Eleasure which I received from its perusal. The Puritans were eminently great and good men. Their inflexible ad- erence to principle under reproach and persecution ; their unyielding resistance to the encroachments of civil author- ity when it interfered with the rights of conscience ; their patient endurance of personal indignities, imprisonments, and exile, and their love of liberty, in connexion with their love of decency and order in the Church of God, may be studied with advantage by Christians of the present day. The REV. FREDERIC FARLEY, of Brooklyn, observes: Neal was prubably as impartial a writer upon the subject as the period at which he wrote could afford; and no one can study his ' History' without being satisfied that it was compiled by a man of great honesty of heart, and with a most faithful and impartial aim to do adequate justice to all parties and opiniins involved. To all of New-England descent tins work must ever be of paramount interest, for what work unfolds so freely the sad and peculiar causes which drove the founders of New-England from their native shores to these ? To all who would understand the early efforts at the reformation of our religion froim Roinanism in Old England, and trace the progress from the intolerant principles which iice prevailed there, to the high degree of civil and religious freedom which we now enjoy, the his- tory of Neal is invaluable. - That it has some faults, both in its conduct and style ; that Toulmin's revision might well be more complete; and that the remoter time at which we are living, with the rich treasures for annotation which the indefatigable spirit of historical and Literary research has been constantly augmentiig, offers new and great advantages for enrichiig the work, are almost setievideiut propositions to any one who has attended to the subject. In Mr. Choules's hands, I have no doubt that the new editioi will prove a very desirable addition to our family and professional libraries, and feel quote prepared to see it warmly welcomed. The REV. W. M. ROGERS, of Boston, says: 4I ai glad to hear that you propose a republication of' Neal's History of the Puritans.' Accept my thanks for what I regard as a I-avour personal to myself, and a substantial benefit to the community. In the revival of contro' whoe end as well as beginiing our fathers saw. it is well to avail ourselves of their history and experience. I t, like ours, when priucuples are advocated which, on the one hand, would carry us back to Rome, and, on the other, destroy the very seiilance of a church ; when Christ is crucified afresh, and between two thieves, it is tiie that many f the saints who sleep should arise ond come out of their graves, and appear unto many. The REV. GEORGE PECK, D.D., of New-York, in a letter to the publishers, says: A iew editiin of ' Neal's History of the Puritans' doubtless is loudly called for by the existing state of public fe,.liug. Au edition such as you propose to publish, with the addition of notes by the able editor, is comipact form. brought witlin the reach of Limited means, I have no doubt will, as it should, meet with ample encauragement. 117 Other testimonials, equally favourable, have been received, which the publishers will hereafter present to the oublic.

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