The Puritan Family: Religion & Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England

Author/Contributor(s):	Morgan, Edmund
Publisher:	Praeger
Date:	10/10/1980
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a visible kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.