1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Missionary on the whole

on the whole

including a copy ordered by nearly every prominent Evangelical divine of the time

Chinese Government ordered everyone to observe the New Calendar

taken impromptu

1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Missionary on the wholeVery rare title by Benjamin Wadsworth [1670 1737], an influential Colonial era American Puritan who pastored concurrently and was friends with Cotton Mather. Edmund S. Morgan, one of the most important American Puritan scholars, notes the present work as one of the most influential and signficant documents articulating the puritan ethic of home and family in its original theological and devotional context. Probably not as a coincidence, the same year