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Puritanism and liberty : being the Army debates (1647-9) from the Clarke manuscripts
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- with supplementary documents selected and edited with an introduction by A.S.P. Woodhouse ; foreword by A.D. Lindsay
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1951
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- 100, 506 pages ; 22 cm
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- ocm00386599, ocm00386599
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. Present edition of the debates ; State of parties and setting of debates ; The puritan mind ; Puritanism, liberty and democracy -- pt. I. The Putney debates. General Council of the Army, 28th October 1647 ; General Council of the Army, 29th October ; General Council of the Army, 1st November ; pt. II. The Whitehall debates. Council of Officers, 14th December 1648 ; Council of Officers, 8th-11th January 1649 ; Council of Officers, 13th January 1649 -- pt. III. Puritan views on liberty. Some principles of the puritan parties : from John Saltmarsh "Smoke in the temple (1640, "The necessity of tolerations : from John Goodwin, "Independency God's verity (1647) ; The law of nature : from William Ames "Conscience (1639) ; Religious principles of resistance : Calvin on Christian obedience : From the "Institution of Christian religion" ; Presbyterian principles of resistance : from Samuel Rutherford, "Lex, rex" (1644) ; Independent principles of resistance: from John Goodwin." Right and might well met (1649) ; The law and the gospel : Christian liberty. Luther on the law and the Gospel : from "Commentary upon Galatians" ; Milton on Christian liberty : from "Of civil power ; Defensio Prima; Defensio secunda ; The privileges of the saints. The elect and the reprobate : from William Prynne, "Anti-Arminianism" (1630) ; The millennium at hand : from Hanserd Knollys, "A glimpse of Sion's glory" (1641) ; The rule of the saints : "Certain queries presented by many Christian people (1649) ; Liberty of conscience : Independent position : from "the ancient bounds (1645) ; Separatist position : from Roger Williams, "The bloody tenent of persecution (1644) ; Models of a free church. The power of the people : from Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye's introduction to John Cotton's "The keys of the Kingdom of Heaven" (1644) ; From Richard Mather, "An apology for church covenant" (1643) ; The church covenant : from "The saint's apology (1644) ; A spiritual church : from William Dell, "The way of true peace and unity" (1649) ; Leveller principles. God and man : from John Lilburne, "The freeman's freedom vindicated (1649) ; An appeal to parliament : from Richard Overton, "An appeal" (1647) ; Parliament once more : from the "Petition of 11th September 1648" ; History of the second agreement of the people : from John Lilburne, "Legal fundamental liberties (1649) ; Second agreement of the People : from John Lilburne, "The foundations of freedom (1648) ; The female of the species : from a "Petition of women" (1649) ; Democracy in the city : from "London's liberties (1650) ; Digger principles. From "the true levellers' standard advanced (1649) ; Song : from "The diggers' mirth (1650) -- Appendix. A. The spirit of the new model ; B. The army organizes ; C. The Reading debates ; D. Documents relating to the Putney debates ; E. Documents relating to the Whitehall debates ; F. Retrospect ; Notes on text