Pattern and prayer
Posted: 21 Dec 2012 @ 02:53
James
Steven in the last in his series on the Our Father
John Bunyan was one of a
good number of English Christians for whom the restoration of the
monarchy in 1660 spelled trouble. The Dissenters of the mid-17th
century believed in a freedom of religious expression which
inevitably brought them into conflict with the monarch and the
Church of England. In Bunyan's case, his repeated practice of
preaching without a licence led to imprisonment.
Writing in Bedford ...
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