Peter Bulkeley (January 31, 1583-March 9, 1659) was the Puritan leader who established the city of Concord, Massachusetts, 1636. In his only publication, The Gospel Covenant; or the Covenant of Grace Opened, published in London, 1646; 1651, Peter Bulkeley stated:
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<Let us study so to walk that this may be our excellency and dignity among the nations of the world among which we live; that they may be constrained to say of us, only this people is wise, and a holy and blessed people; that all that see us may see and know that the name of the Lord is called upon us; and that we are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. (Deut. 288:10; Isa. 61:9)> 1583PB002
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Endnotes:
1583PB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Peter Bulkeley, 1651. The Gospel Covenant; or the Covenant of Grace Opened (London: 2nd edition, 1651), pp. 431-32. The Annals of America, 20 vols. (Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968), Vol. I, pp. 221-212. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 11.23.
1583PB002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Peter Bulkeley, 1651. The Gospel Covenant; or the Covenant of Grace Opened (London: 2nd edition, 1651), pp. 431-32. The Annals of America, 20 vols. (Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968), Vol. I, p. 212.
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