ABSTRACT
Lutheran and Reformed Protestants constituted most of British North America’s white non-British population and considerably enriched its ethnic and Protestant pluralism. Both groups trace their origins to the Protestant reformers of the 16th century, both are biblically grounded faiths emphasizing salvation by the grace of a sovereign God, and both spread through northern and western Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Rejecting the icons, crosses, and—except for baptism and communion—the sacraments of Roman Catholicism, they insisted that devotion focus on Jesus and the text of the Bible. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315022703/d8062edf-62f8-4e77-ad3e-fdf43d7f25ef/content/ufig32_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
