Puritanism: or, A Churchman's Defence against its Aspersions & Persecutions

Coit, Thomas W. Puritanism: or, A Churchman's Defence against its Aspersions, by An Appeal to its own History. New-York: D. Appleton & Co., 1845. First Edition. [10580] Faded cloth, edgeworn, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, center page gathering pulled but not quite detached. 527, [1] pp., the last being errata. Light foxing. Fair. Hardcover. In 1835 the author had written a series published in the periodical The Churchman, in which he defended Episcopacy from the "harsh and unwarranted cavils" against the Established church in a book on the history of the Puritans. In 1843 "several bishops and a large number of clergy" urged him to revise and expand the series into book form. Here he examines the writings of the Puritans, the deeds done by them in England and in New England, and finds their treatment of Episcopalians, Baptists, Quakers, Papists, Presbyterians, and Indians, shameful and unchristian. Thomas Winthrop Coit (1803-1885), b. New London, CT; d. Middletown, CT. “He graduated at Yale Col