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The Puritans on Independence sheds light on the rise of new claims by puritans to freedom as 'independence' several decades earlier than modern scholarship has assumed. This critical edition of long-lost English manuscripts provides access to a set of treatises which are the most significant hitherto unpublished texts for understanding puritan debate over this concept of liberty. Although once mis-catalogued as anti-separatist polemic, they in fact document the presbyterians' clandestine 'First Examination' of Henry Jacob's argument for 'independent' liberty and ecclesiology. It includes Jacob's 'Defence' of his early congregational experiment in response to the 'First Examination'. The volume concludes with the presbyterians' 'Second Examination' of Jacob's 'Defence' in 1620, written several years after the erection of Jacob's independent church in Southwark.
This work provides unprecedented insight into divisions among the godly in England before the public contentions over church government in the Westminster Assembly during the mid-seventeenth century. The introductory chapter traces the development of radical notions of liberty among puritans over the first half of the seventeenth century through to the English Revolution. All this had a lasting impact well beyond the British Isles and the early modern period. The edition will be of interest to early modern and modern scholars across many disciplines, from history and divinity to English literature and political science.
Contents
Introduction
I. I. Puritanism and revolution
II. Henry Jacob and puritan 'antipuritanism'
III. The Hampton Court Conference and necessity of independence
IV. The freedom of independence
V. The freedom of consent
VI. The freedom of association
VII. Royal supremacy and religious toleration
VIII. The reception of Jacob's independence in the English Revolution
Reader's guide
I. Texts
II. Abbreviations
III. Manuscripts
IV. Editorial Key
V. Marginal Notes
VI. Footnotes
VII. Transcription
Principal events in Henry Jacob's Life
Table of contents for 'First Examination'
Argument sequence
The First Examination
The Defence
The Second Examination
General index
Scripture index
