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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," ETC.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

JOHN SNOW, 35, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXLIX.

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Not thorough, but congregational Independents only
The transactions of the Assembly confirm this view
Vane and Nye promote the Solemn League and Covenant
The Westminster Assembly adopt it
Treatment of Burgess and Price

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The covenant taken in St. Margaret's church
Enforced upon the nation

The part taken by the Independents

The anabaptists opposed by Goodwin and Nye, in December,

The Assembly Independents unfavourable to liberty of con

The assertion that they advocated unlimited toleration examined ib. The occasion of the scene in the Jerusalem Chamber, Feb. 21,

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The real cause of offence
The famous sentence respecting unlimited toleration, not at-
tributed to Philip Nye, nor to any of the Assembly In-
dependents; but the contrary

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This sentence not spoken at all, but an epistolary statement in
Baillie of the opinions of John Goodwin and the tho-

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His own account of himself

Roger Williams an advocate of liberty of conscience

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