1641 HENRY BURTON. Puritan Ears Cut Off for Advocating the Separation of Church and State. Miracles

1641 HENRY BURTON. Puritan Ears Cut Off for Advocating the Separation of Church and State. MiraclesVery scarce tractate by radical Puritan, Henry Burton [1578 1648]. Just four years earlier, in 1637, Burton, and other radical Puritans William Prynne and John Bastwick, had his ears lopped off for publicly reproving Archbishop Laud. They were said to have been cut so close to the face that the temporal artery was struck so that he nearly bled to death. Released from prison in 1640, he returned immediately to the battle for religious liberty,

very solid and clean with some sporadic foxing

It is worthy of note that the work was published concurrently with some of the very first poems regarding slave travel by Phillis Wheatley

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became in 1661 pastor of the church there

Birkenhead

Rubbed through at extremities

and Roman general Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus (3rd C

Binding nice

enjoyed signal success

social reformers of his age

"This sufficiently refutes all those who pretend to excuse themselves from coming to the Church

that our public thanksgiving may not be so vague as to fail of its object for want of apprehension of the grounds of it