Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes

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Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes is a 17th-century Puritan catechism written for the religious instruction of children in colonial New England.

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instanceOf Christian literature
Puritan work
catechism
religious book
approximatePublicationYear 1646
author John Cotton
contains questions on God
questions on salvation
questions on sin
questions on the Lord’s Prayer
questions on the Ten Commandments
questions on the sacraments
countryOfOrigin New England Colonies
surface form: Colonial Massachusetts
denomination Congregationalism
doctrinalFocus Reformed theology
educationalLevel elementary
format question-and-answer
genre catechetical literature
didactic religious text
historicalContext colonial New England
early Massachusetts Bay Colony
influenced Puritan religious education practices
later New England catechisms
intendedUse church catechesis
home religious education
language English
medium printed book
notableFor being one of the earliest American catechisms for children
originalAudienceLocation Boston
Massachusetts Bay Colony
placeOfPublication Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston
publicationCentury 17th century
purpose religious instruction of children
teaching basic Christian doctrine
regionOfUse New England
religiousTradition Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism

Puritanism
subject Christian doctrine
moral instruction
targetAudience children
youth in colonial New England
theologicalOrientation Calvinist
titleAlludesTo 1 Peter 2:2
usedBy Congregational ministers
Puritan families

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John Cotton notableWork Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes