The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption is a book written by William Pynchon and published in England in 1650. Pynchon expressed views which the Massachusetts General Court found to be full of errors and heresies, and condemned the book to be burnt on the Boston Common.[1] It thus became the first book banned by English colonists in New England.
The first printing
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption was first printed in 1650, under the imprint "London: Printed by J.M. for George Whittington, and James Moxon, and are to be sold at the blue Anchor in Corn-hill neer the Royall Exchange, 1650."[2]
References
- ^ Wright, Harry Andrew (1931). The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption (PDF). Springfield Massachusetts: Harry Wright.
- ^ "The meritorious price of our redemption, iustification, &c. Cleering it from some common errors; and proving, Part I. 1. That Christ did not suffer for us those unutterable torments of Gods wrath, that commonly are called hell-torments, to redeem our soules from them. 2. That Christ did not bear our sins by Gods imputation, and therefore he did not bear the curse of the law for them. Part II. 3. That Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law (not by suffering the said curse for us, but) by a satisfactory price of attonement; viz. by paying or performing unto his father that invaluable precious thing of his mediatoriall obedience, wherof his mediatoriall sacrifice of attonement was the master-piece. 4. A sinners righteousnesse or justification is explained, and cleered from some common errors. / By William Pinchin, Gentleman, in New-England". quod.lib.umich.edu. University of Michigan Library. Retrieved 4 June 2023.