SOURCE: Introduction to Tracts on Liberty in the Puritan Revolution 1638-1647, edited by William Haller, Octagon Books, Inc., 1965, pp. 1-8.
In the following essay, Haller surveys the sources "from which the Puritan doctrine of liberty sprang." He also argues that in revolutionary pamphlets the doctrine of liberty was developed alongside modern English prose.
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