1st Edition
Katherine Chidley Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 4
Edited By Katharine Gillespie
Copyright 2009
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Katherine Chidley was a religious and political activist who dissented from the established church throughout the 1620s, 30s and 40s; supported the parliamentarian cause against the royalists during the English civil wars of the 1640s; and sided with the proto-democratic Levellers against the more authoritarian regime of Oliver Cromwell during England’s short-lived but influential republican era... Read more
Contents: Introductory Note; The Ivstification of the Independant Churches of Christ. Being an answer to Mr. Edvvardes his Booke, which hee hath written against the government of Christs Chvrch, and toleration of Christs publike worship; briefely declaring that the congregations of the Saints ought not to have dependancie in government upon any other; or direction in worship from any other than Christ their Head and Lavv Giver. London: Printed for William Larnar, 1641; A New-Yeares-Gift, or a Brief Exhortation to Mr. Thomas Edwards; That he may breake off his old sins, in the old yeare, and begin the New yeare, with new fruits of Love, first to God, and then to his bretheren. London: [sl: sn], 1645; Good Counsell, to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government, That they may declare their Faith before they build their Church. [London: sn, 1645].
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Katharine Gillespie is Associate Professor, Department of English, Miami University, USA
