Excerpt from Puritanism in England Abbey, in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, and in the University Church, Cambridge. In choosing 'puritanism' for the subject of my Lenten Lectures I was influenced by the circumstance that N onconformists generally were engaged in commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Ejectment of their religious ancestors. I trust that nothing has been said which can fairly be regarded as lacking in sympathy or appreciation for the Victims of what I must needs consider the meanest perse cution which Christian History records. Nevertheless, I cannot think that the tradition of their sufferings ought to be allowed to raise the temperature of modern discussions, or to suggest a polemic for modern controversialists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.