Tracts on liberty in the Puritan Revolution, 1638-1647 / edited, with a commentary, by William Haller.

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Haller, William, 1885-1974 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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New York : Columbia University Press, 1934.
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3 volumes : facs., plates, portraits ; 24 cm

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    "The text of each tract in volumes II and III has been reproduced by the photo-offset process without enlargement or reduction."--Pref., p. ix.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 141-145).
    Contents
    • I. Commentary. Bibliography (p. [141]-145)--II-III. Facsimiles.
    • v. 1. Commentary: I. The revolt of the pamphleteers,
    • II. New lights and divine right,
    • III. The law of nature,
    • IV. The call for popular resistance,
    • V. The plea for tolerance,
    • VI. The appeal to public opinion,
    • VII. The "Independent" doctrine of toleration,
    • VIII. Toleration and the sects,
    • IX. The utopia of free speech and free trade,
    • X. Toleration, the great Diana,
    • XI. Toleration and laissez faire,
    • XII. The unreason of persecution,
    • XIII. The tribune of the people,
    • XIV. The great charter of reason and equity,
    • XV. The power of love again,
    • XVI. The rights of man,
    • XVII. The call for an agreement of the people.
    • Appendices: A. The writings of William Walwyn,
    • B. Milton's reputation and Influence, 1643-1647. V. 2-3. Tracts: A worke of the beast, 1638 / John Lilburne.
    • Lord Brooke, a discourse opening the nature of that episcopacie, which is exercised in England, 1641 / Robert Greville.
    • Observations upon some of his majesties late answers and expresses, 1642 / Henry Parker.
    • Anti-Cavalierisme, 1642 / John Goodwin.
    • The power of love, 1643 / William Walwyn.
    • An apologeticall Narration, 1644 / Thomas Goodwin and others.
    • Θεομαχία, 1644 / John Goodwin.
    • The compassionate samaritane, 1644 / William Walwyn.
    • Liberty of conscience, 1644 / Henry Robinson.
    • A copie of a letter, 1645 / John Lilburne.
    • A helpe to the right understanding of a discourse concerning independency, 1645 / William Walwyn.
    • The araignement of Mr. Persecution, 1645 / Richard Overton.
    • Englands birth-right justified, 1645 / John Lilburne.
    • Englands lamentable slaverie, 1645 / William Walwyn.
    • A whisper in the eare of Mr. Thomas Edwards, 1646 / William Walwyn.
    • A prediction of Mr. Edwards his conversion, 1646.
    • A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, 1646 / Richard Overton.
    • The commoners complaint, 1647.
    • To the right honourable and supreme authority of this nation, the Commons in Parliament assembled, 1647.
    LCCN
    34031959
    OCLC
    1426704
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