CSPAN2 Book TV May 15, 2010
>> the deadliest in all of human history. it was a great effect. what i argue in the book in the covenant is that the attacks on the ministers, they are getting into the mud with their opponents. the vicious debate that raises in the streets. and in the public humans and pep -- pamphlets. the idea of the first puritans of the city on a hill, they are doing to bind themselves together and with god to form the perfect society, perfect church, be a model for the perform of england. it was simply torn apart. other events contributed. but the epidemic and debate tore apart the old covenan...
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