Ann Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199251926
- eISBN:
- 9780191719042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251926.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter describes the production of Gangraena: its printing, licensing, and distribution. It looks at how Edwards used pamphlets as sources and at the printed debate his books provoked, ...
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This chapter describes the production of Gangraena: its printing, licensing, and distribution. It looks at how Edwards used pamphlets as sources and at the printed debate his books provoked, particularly with John Goodwin and William Walwyn. The difficult history of reading is approached through the analysis both of the author’s intentions and methods, and of readers’ responses. The chapter stresses the interactions between print, oral communication, and manuscript circulation, both revealed in, and surrounding Gangraena, while also isolating the specific role of printed polemic in the increasing polarization amongst parliamentarians.Less
This chapter describes the production of Gangraena: its printing, licensing, and distribution. It looks at how Edwards used pamphlets as sources and at the printed debate his books provoked, particularly with John Goodwin and William Walwyn. The difficult history of reading is approached through the analysis both of the author’s intentions and methods, and of readers’ responses. The chapter stresses the interactions between print, oral communication, and manuscript circulation, both revealed in, and surrounding Gangraena, while also isolating the specific role of printed polemic in the increasing polarization amongst parliamentarians.
Ann Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199251926
- eISBN:
- 9780191719042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251926.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter stresses the importance of Edwards’s Gangraena in the mobilization of zealous Presbyterian campaigns against Parliament’s proposals for church government in 1646-7. It looks especially ...
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This chapter stresses the importance of Edwards’s Gangraena in the mobilization of zealous Presbyterian campaigns against Parliament’s proposals for church government in 1646-7. It looks especially at Edwards’s links to London petitioning campaigns, to attempts in the city to defend the Solemn League and Covenant, and to the struggles over the Presbyterian City Remonstrance of May 1646. His most important connections with the Westminster Assembly, the Common Council, and the Scots are discussed. The importance of John Goodwin’s congregation to the struggle for religious liberty is stressed, along with the role of the New Model Army and the city radicals highlighted in Part Three of Gangraena. Edwards here attacked the men who were soon to become identified as leaders of the Levellers. The Army’s occupation of London in August 1647 prompted Edwards’s flight to Amsterdam. Finally, the Presbyterian contribution to the parliamentarian public sphere is evaluated.Less
This chapter stresses the importance of Edwards’s Gangraena in the mobilization of zealous Presbyterian campaigns against Parliament’s proposals for church government in 1646-7. It looks especially at Edwards’s links to London petitioning campaigns, to attempts in the city to defend the Solemn League and Covenant, and to the struggles over the Presbyterian City Remonstrance of May 1646. His most important connections with the Westminster Assembly, the Common Council, and the Scots are discussed. The importance of John Goodwin’s congregation to the struggle for religious liberty is stressed, along with the role of the New Model Army and the city radicals highlighted in Part Three of Gangraena. Edwards here attacked the men who were soon to become identified as leaders of the Levellers. The Army’s occupation of London in August 1647 prompted Edwards’s flight to Amsterdam. Finally, the Presbyterian contribution to the parliamentarian public sphere is evaluated.
David Loewenstein
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199295937
- eISBN:
- 9780191712210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295937.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter discusses the spectre of heresy in Milton's England and the significant impact it had on the bitter struggle over religious toleration. Under examination is the rhetoric of fear, ...
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This chapter discusses the spectre of heresy in Milton's England and the significant impact it had on the bitter struggle over religious toleration. Under examination is the rhetoric of fear, hysteria, and savagery that characterized the assault on toleration by orthodox godly writers, including Presbyterian heresiographers who abhorred religious schism and sectarianism. Radical religious writers as diverse as John Goodwin, William Walwyn, and John Milton responded with ingenuity to the intense fears that toleration was unleashing religious chaos. As this chapter reveals, Walwyn and Milton show the greatest linguistic suppleness and conceptual imagination as they interrogate orthodox visions of the terrifying growth of heresy in the midst of the English Revolution's deepening crisis over religious toleration. Positioning Milton in relation to his radical religious contemporaries, this chapter illuminates the complexity and originality of his responses, expressed in his densely imagistic prose, to the spectre of heresy.Less
This chapter discusses the spectre of heresy in Milton's England and the significant impact it had on the bitter struggle over religious toleration. Under examination is the rhetoric of fear, hysteria, and savagery that characterized the assault on toleration by orthodox godly writers, including Presbyterian heresiographers who abhorred religious schism and sectarianism. Radical religious writers as diverse as John Goodwin, William Walwyn, and John Milton responded with ingenuity to the intense fears that toleration was unleashing religious chaos. As this chapter reveals, Walwyn and Milton show the greatest linguistic suppleness and conceptual imagination as they interrogate orthodox visions of the terrifying growth of heresy in the midst of the English Revolution's deepening crisis over religious toleration. Positioning Milton in relation to his radical religious contemporaries, this chapter illuminates the complexity and originality of his responses, expressed in his densely imagistic prose, to the spectre of heresy.
John Donoghue
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226157658
- eISBN:
- 9780226072869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226072869.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter recovers how the godly elite of Coleman Street, the revolutionary crowd that mobilized in the Ward, and the illicit press that radicals operated there, played instrumental parts in the ...
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This chapter recovers how the godly elite of Coleman Street, the revolutionary crowd that mobilized in the Ward, and the illicit press that radicals operated there, played instrumental parts in the outbreak of the English Revolution. At the level of high politics, Isaac Pennington’s petitioning campaigns of 1640-1642, in conjunction with the republican tracts published by his pastor John Goodwin, built a political bridge between the power brokers in Parliament and the mass opposition organizing against the King in London. With their peers in the Long Parliament, the Ward’s revolutionary elite also aspired to use the crisis with the King to further advance the Reformation through English expansion into the Spanish West Indies. But beyond the circles of the political elite, Coleman Street radicals such as John Lilburne, Katherine Hadley, and Richard Overton organized crowd actions and an underground press from the bottom up. Fashioning the cobbler Samuel How as an inspirational symbol of radical wisdom, Overton’s press transformed the cobbler into “the Cobbler” and ultimately into a revolutionary prophet. Organized largely in Coleman Street Ward, the political labor of poor commoners, whether on the streets, in conventicles, or through petitioning and the printing press, made the English Revolution possible.Less
This chapter recovers how the godly elite of Coleman Street, the revolutionary crowd that mobilized in the Ward, and the illicit press that radicals operated there, played instrumental parts in the outbreak of the English Revolution. At the level of high politics, Isaac Pennington’s petitioning campaigns of 1640-1642, in conjunction with the republican tracts published by his pastor John Goodwin, built a political bridge between the power brokers in Parliament and the mass opposition organizing against the King in London. With their peers in the Long Parliament, the Ward’s revolutionary elite also aspired to use the crisis with the King to further advance the Reformation through English expansion into the Spanish West Indies. But beyond the circles of the political elite, Coleman Street radicals such as John Lilburne, Katherine Hadley, and Richard Overton organized crowd actions and an underground press from the bottom up. Fashioning the cobbler Samuel How as an inspirational symbol of radical wisdom, Overton’s press transformed the cobbler into “the Cobbler” and ultimately into a revolutionary prophet. Organized largely in Coleman Street Ward, the political labor of poor commoners, whether on the streets, in conventicles, or through petitioning and the printing press, made the English Revolution possible.
Jay T. Collier
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- April 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190858520
- eISBN:
- 9780190863876
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190858520.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Chapter 6 looks at the perseverance debate started by the avowed Arminian John Goodwin, who appealed to Augustine and the early church for a denial of the perseverance of the saints. The chapter ...
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Chapter 6 looks at the perseverance debate started by the avowed Arminian John Goodwin, who appealed to Augustine and the early church for a denial of the perseverance of the saints. The chapter focuses on the Reformed responses among Goodwin’s Puritan counterparts, like John Owen and George Kendall, and how they challenged Goodwin’s reading of Augustine and defended the importance of perseverance for confessing the Reformed faith. It also focuses on Richard Baxter’s alternate perspective, which affirmed the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints but questioned whether it should be a confessional issue based on his reading of Augustine and the witness of church history. This chapter reveals how competing readings of Augustine on perseverance persisted among Reformed Englishmen and also how these readings influenced the way Puritans developed and used confessions so as to handle concerns of catholicity.Less
Chapter 6 looks at the perseverance debate started by the avowed Arminian John Goodwin, who appealed to Augustine and the early church for a denial of the perseverance of the saints. The chapter focuses on the Reformed responses among Goodwin’s Puritan counterparts, like John Owen and George Kendall, and how they challenged Goodwin’s reading of Augustine and defended the importance of perseverance for confessing the Reformed faith. It also focuses on Richard Baxter’s alternate perspective, which affirmed the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints but questioned whether it should be a confessional issue based on his reading of Augustine and the witness of church history. This chapter reveals how competing readings of Augustine on perseverance persisted among Reformed Englishmen and also how these readings influenced the way Puritans developed and used confessions so as to handle concerns of catholicity.
Polly Ha
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198753193
- eISBN:
- 9780191814822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198753193.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
Associational freedom played a key role in reconfiguring ecclesiastical and political thought during the Interregnum. This chapter explores how Puritan Independents such as Henry Jacob and John ...
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Associational freedom played a key role in reconfiguring ecclesiastical and political thought during the Interregnum. This chapter explores how Puritan Independents such as Henry Jacob and John Goodwin advanced arguments for the freedom of association by claiming a dual freedom to exit from true churches and to join or even to establish new formal ecclesiastical societies. During the English Revolution some Independents began to assert more controversial claims for the freedom to exclude others from their churches, over matters such as paedobaptism, for example. These ecclesiastical positions resonated with wider debates over institutional legitimacy during the 1640s and 1650s and also with changing views on the bonds of society and the limits of individual liberty at a time when England’s most revolutionary experiments with both popular government and godly forms of church life were being undertaken.Less
Associational freedom played a key role in reconfiguring ecclesiastical and political thought during the Interregnum. This chapter explores how Puritan Independents such as Henry Jacob and John Goodwin advanced arguments for the freedom of association by claiming a dual freedom to exit from true churches and to join or even to establish new formal ecclesiastical societies. During the English Revolution some Independents began to assert more controversial claims for the freedom to exclude others from their churches, over matters such as paedobaptism, for example. These ecclesiastical positions resonated with wider debates over institutional legitimacy during the 1640s and 1650s and also with changing views on the bonds of society and the limits of individual liberty at a time when England’s most revolutionary experiments with both popular government and godly forms of church life were being undertaken.