Works of John Cotton, Volumes 1-5

Stephen Yuille is director of Puritan publishing at Reformation Heritage Books. He also serves as a pastor at Fairview Covenant Church in Granbury, Texas, and as a professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

John Cotton (1585-1652) graduated from the University of Cambridge University and is a highly regarded Puritan scholar, preacher, and counselor. He was appointed minister at St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, in 1612. Twenty years later, because of a crackdown in the Church of England against nonconformity, Cotton was forced into hiding and in 1633 sailed across the Atlantic to New England, where he became a minister in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Cotton was instrumental in the establishment and growth of Congregationalism, which became the dominant church polity in New England.