Plymouth Plantation To Glory: Book One: Kindled In Smithfield
Plymouth Plantation to Glory, Book One: Kindled in Smithfield - The Forging of the Covenant Flame tells the story of the spiritual and historical forces that shaped William Bradford and the Pilgrim Fathers long before Plymouth Colony was founded.
Beginning with Henry VIII's break with Rome and the upheaval of the English Reformation, William Landers traces the path through the Marian persecutions, the martyrs remembered by John Foxe, the rise of Puritanism and Separatism, the Scrooby congregation, religious persecution under the English crown, and the Pilgrims' difficult exile in Holland.
At the center of the story is a continuity of faith and remembrance. The testimony of earlier English Protestants did not disappear when the fires of persecution went out. Their witness was preserved in Scripture, sermons, books, letters, and especially John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. William Bradford himself looked back upon that persecuted Protestant generation when explaining the religious history from which the Pilgrim movement emerged.
The story then follows Bradford from Austerfield to Scrooby, from imprisonment and exile to Amsterdam and Leiden, and finally toward the decision that would place the Pilgrim congregation aboard the Mayflower.
Drawing upon Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, Foxe's writings, the 1599 Geneva Bible, historical records, and modern scholarship, Landers presents the Pilgrims as spiritual heirs to generations who had struggled over Scripture, conscience, worship, covenant, and the authority of the church.
Written from the perspective of a lineal descendant of Governor William Bradford, Kindled in Smithfield is both historical narrative and an inheritance of faith.
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