{"product_id":"historical-letters-on-the-first-charter-of-massachusetts-government","title":"Historical Letters on the First Charter of Massachusetts Government.","description":"204 pp. 18mo, bound in sixes. Brown cloth. An account of religious persecutions perpetrated by the Puritan founders of the earliest American colonies. From the preface: \"History had long shown that no sovereignty, christian or pagan, could ever establish religion by law without persecution; yet our sovereign ancestors attempted it, and were guilty of persecution as these letters will show. It cost them more than a century's teaching, and much blood and treasure, to learn, that, to every individual, belongs the culture of his own religion; and that the office of government is to protect him merely in that labor.\" Appears quite scarce - only 5 copies found in institutional holdings, two in trade, no records of sale at auction in the last 75 years. Sabin 18079.","brand":"J.N. Bang, Printer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20536137547846,"sku":"2007120","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2007120.jpg?v=1571425941","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/historical-letters-on-the-first-charter-of-massachusetts-government","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}