Puritans


The Bruised Reed
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Scarlet Letter
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices (Puritan Paperbacks)
The Doctrine of Repentance
All Things for Good
Communion with God
The Mystery of Providence
The Glory of Christ
The Reformed Pastor
The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
The Heart of Christ
Overcoming Sin and Temptation
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine HoweThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Highland Witch by Susan  FletcherThe Witch of Willow Hall by Hester FoxWitch Child by Celia Rees
Witch Hunts in Historical Fiction
161 books — 93 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Crucible by Arthur MillerIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Thanksgiving Reading List
29 books — 7 voters

Salem Possessed by Paul S. BoyerIn the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth NortonThe Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. StarkeyThe Wonders Of The Invisible World by Cotton MatherSalem-Village Witchcraft by Paul S. Boyer
Salem Witch Trial (nonfiction)
28 books — 9 voters
The Magna Carta Manifesto by Peter LinebaughWoody Guthrie, American Radical by Will KaufmanRadical Religion in Cromwell's England by Andrew BradstockThe World Turned Upside Down by Christopher      HillThe Leveller Revolution by John Rees
Radicals and Dissenters
120 books — 6 voters

Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous - more truly strong, as a matter of fact - than the Puritans really sought. Faith, he tells us, is not an exotic bloom to be laboriously maintained by the exclusion of most aspects of the day to day world, nor a useful delusion to be supported by sophistries and half-truths like a child's belief in Father Christmas - not, in short, a prud ...more
Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates

John Flavel
A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.
John Flavel, The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ ... finished by his covenant-transaction

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