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Author Powers, David M.

Title Good and Comfortable Words : the Coded Sermon Notes of John Pynchon and the Frontier Preaching Ministry of George Moxon.

Publication Info. Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
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Contents Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 230.
Summary Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev. George Moxon. The setting was Springfield, Massachusetts, founded in 1636 by John's father William Pynchon. As a note-taker, John recorded just what he heard in this rare resource, which allows the reader to listen in on the weekly sermons he documented in the 1640s. This symbol-by-symbol transcription into a word-for-word text preserves the character of the minister's original remarks, and reveals M.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Pynchon, John, 1621-1703.
Pynchon, John, 1621-1703.
Sermons, American -- New England -- History and criticism.
Sermons, American.
New England.
Transmission of texts -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Transmission of texts.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Neuman, Meredith M.
Other Form: Print version: Powers, David M. Good and Comfortable Words : The Coded Sermon Notes of John Pynchon and the Frontier Preaching Ministry of George Moxon. Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, ©2017 9781532618000
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