Baptist Piety: The Last Will and Testimony of Obadiah Holmes

by Edwin S. Gaustad

In Baptist Piety, Edwin S. Gaustad has combined a carefully researched and long overdue three-chapter biography of the New England Baptist, Obadiah Holmes (1607?-1682), with an equally carefully edited modern rendition of Holmes's hitherto unpublished Testimony (1675) and Last Will (1681).

Gaustad Deftly traces Holmes's life from Reddish, near Manchester, in old England to Salem in Massachusetts Bay Colony, to Rehoboth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817352694
• ISBN13: 9780817352691
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"