1662 And All That

On Thursday, I offered an historical overview of puritanism at our evening Bibe Study. I referred to an event which happened 363 years ago yesterday: the Great Ejection. Nearly 2000 puritan ministers were expelled from the national church, which cost them their homes and a half-year’s pay, for refusing to surrender their principles and conform to the new Anglican settlement.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;  (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Hebrews 11:36-40

We salute them still.