1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Evangelist Though Empires fall

Though Empires fall

fresh-to-market piece of genuine Americana that saw rescued slaves

think not to live so long | But seek to live so well

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1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Evangelist Though Empires fallVery rare title by Benjamin Wadsworth [1670 1737], an influential Colonial era American Puritan who pastored concurrently and was friends with Cotton Mather. Edmund S. Morgan, one of the most important American Puritan scholars, notes the present work as one of the most influential and signficant documents articulating the puritan ethic of home and family in its original theological and devotional context. Probably not as a coincidence, the same year