What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

During this era public authorities in Massachusetts dealt with the threat primarily by means of quarantine. Upham responded to Poole in a book running five times as long and sharing the same title (referring to Poole as "the Reviewer.

1678 Harvard College; A. 1681 honorary doctorate 1710 University of Glasgow) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials. B.