Excerpt from Puritanism in Power: An Argument in Three Books Religion, which to the ignorant means captivity, and which priests have used to scare men into tendering gifts and homage, is in reality the gladdest thing in life - gladder than the song of birds and freer than their flight. Religion ever blows the trump of Jubilee; and Faith, Hope and Charity in choral unity start the soul upon a song of which it never tires, though longing for its practice to be perfected. 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.