Writing as a humble cobbler of Agawam (Ipswich) in Massachusetts, the Puritan minister and lawyer Nathaniel Ward attacks religious toleration, women’s fashions and the disorders of the English Civil War, with words for Ireland, Parliament and the ministers of England. It is crabbed, witty and fiercely opinionated.
A landmark of early American prose, for readers curious about the Puritan mind at its most combative. Download the free EPUB.