"The Bible, the Holy Scriptures, will never henceforward to any generation, in any part of the globe, be, or stand for, to individuals or groups of men and women, what is was to the early English Puritans."
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George Edward Ellis
George Edward Ellis (8 August 1814 – 20 December 1894) was an American historian, a professor of theology, and a Unitarian pastor in Massachusetts.
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