An infamous series of tracts that i have a pdf of, but this edition would be so much better

The Martin Marprelate tracts are the most famous pamphlets of the English Renaissance; to their contemporaries they were the most notorious. Printed in 1588 and 1589 on a secret press carted across the English countryside from one sympathetic household to another, the seven tracts attack the Church of England, particularly its Bishops (hence the pseudonym, Mar-prelate), and advocate a Presbyterian system of church government. Scandalously witty, racy, and irreverent, the Marprelate tracts are the finest prose satires of their era. Their colloquial style and playfully self-dramatizing manner influenced the fiction and theatre of the Elizabethan Golden Age. This is the first fully annotated edition of the tracts to appear in almost a century. A lightly modernized text makes Martin Marprelate's famous voice easily accessible, and a full introduction details the background, sources, production, authorship, and seventeenth-century afterlife of the tracts.

Here's a bit of a Jonathan Edwards biography that made me chuckle:

"Elizabeth's sisters murdered her own child, and a brother killed another sister with an ax. Jonathan Edwards is sometimes criticized for having too dim a view of human nature, but it may be helpful to be reminded that his grandmother was an incorrigible profligate, his great-aunt committed infanticide, and his great-uncle was an ax-murderer." (from "Jonathan Edwards: A Life" by "George M. Marsden").

I'm having such a blast with my merry band of Puritans, mostly Puritans, i'm refining my focus, not just Owen who's shrine i set up a few days ago, oh there's so many of them, i have close to 1,000 works by hundreds, i'm making lists, with timelines, and i will be beginning to grow a physical collection with sets of beautiful hardcovers.

When i say to dad i'm thinking of getting sets, he thinks i'm saying sex haha.

Here's one of them that looks real dandy

Yesterday i scored big time on Monergism, ALL of Spurgeons sermons arranged in the canonical order, i mean the biblical texts they were based on, i've read 3 of them in one wake period, they're so interesting to compare with the old timey Puritans who Spurgeon championed so well. A couple of them i'm getting into is Joseph Caryl's lengthy meditations on the book of Job, and James Durham's Revelation commentary which can be gotten like this with far less typos i bet!!

It's a good time, and that's why i'm sharing this with y'all. I cannot give a good apology for this kind of thing though, just that it gives me a wholesome and pure feeling.

Dad's hanging on, it hurts when he pees, which in my immature brain reminds me of a Frank Zappa song. Later!!