THE

HISTORY OF THE REVIVAL AND PROGRESS

OF

INDEPENDENCY IN ENGLAND.

THE

HISTORY OF THE REVIVAL AND PROGRESS

OF

INDEPENDENCY

IN ENGLAND,

SINCE THE PERIOD OF THE REFORMATION;

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE PRINCIPLES OF INDEPENDENCY IN THE AGE OF CHRIST

AND HIS APOSTLES, AND OF THE GRADUAL DEPARTURE

OF THE CHURCH INTO ANTICHRISTIAN ERROR,

UNTIL THE TIME OF THE REFORMATION.

BY

JOSEPH FLETCHER,

Editor of the "SELECT WORKS AND MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR.
FLETCHER," Author of "SIX VIEWS OF INFIDELITY," &c.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

JOHN SNOW, 35, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXLVIII.

ANALYTICAL TABLE

OF THE

THIRD VOLUME

OF

THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCY.

CHAPTER I.

CONTROVERSIES AMONGST THE INDEPENDENTS IN EXILE.

The freedom enjoyed in Holland leads to the discovery of dif-

ferences of opinion

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The baptismal controversy, and the contention and persecution

The views entertained respecting baptism at this period, essen-

Both erroneous in theory

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How the Independents in Holland became divided into pædo-

baptists and anti-pædo-baptists

The principal parties engaged in this controversy

Smyth, a remarkable man, but unstable

Helwisse, a coadjutor with Smyth

His return to England, and Robinson's account of it

Robinson in the right

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The baptismal controversy unsatisfactory on both sides

Robinson and Ainsworth successful on particular points

Robinson's survey of the foundations of Smyth's church,