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The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
Our edition · 1707 · 150 pages
The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
by John Williams
In the Deerfield raid of late February 1704, Puritan minister John Williams, his family, and many neighbors were seized by a French and allied Native force and marched some 300 miles toward Canada; his wife was killed crossing an icy stream. Writing it himself and published in 1707, Williams frames the captivity as a spiritual trial — his central struggle being French Jesuit pressure on Protestant captives to convert to Catholicism, which he steadfastly resisted while witnessing his Reformed faith. (His young daughter Eunice, by contrast, assimilated among the Mohawk and was never redeemed.)
The changed life
Dragged through a winter wilderness and pressed daily to renounce his Protestant faith, Williams held firm and turned his captivity into an open confession of the gospel he preached.
A note on the text. The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zionis in the public domain. What you're buying is our edition — the careful typesetting and design. The original text is also available free here.