Puritanism and Liberty, being the Army Debates (1647-9)
This collection contains the Putney Debates, the Whitehall Debates, and numerous other documents about Puritan religious and political views during the English Revolution, in particular the Levellers. The collection has pieces by many authors including John Saltmarsh, John Goodman, William Ames, John Calvin, Samuel Rutherford, Martin Luther, John Milton, William Prynne, Hanserd Knollys, Roger Williams, Philip Nye, Richard Mather, William Dell, John Lilburne, Richard Overton, Henry Ireton, Thomas Rainborough, Oliver Cromwell, and John Wildman.
Puritanism and Liberty, being the Army Debates (1647-9) from the Clarke Manuscripts with Supplementary Documents, selected and edited with an Introduction A.S.P. Woodhouse, foreword by A.D. Lindsay (University of Chicago Press, 1951).
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- Foreword: Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
- Editor: Arthur Sutherland Pigott Woodhouse
- Editor: Sir William Clarke
- Author: John Calvin
- Author: Martin Luther
- Author: John Milton
- Author: John Lilburne
- Author: Richard Overton
- Author: Henry Ireton
- Author: Thomas Rainborough
- Author: Oliver Cromwell
- Author: John Wildman
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Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- POSTSCRIPT TO THE 1950 EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I.: THE PUTNEY DEBATES
- At the General Council of Officers1 at Putney, 28th October 1647.
- Putney, 29th October 1647
- Putney, 1st November 1647 At the General Council of the Army
- PART II.: THE WHITEHALL DEBATESa
- General Council1 at Whitehall, 14th December 1648b
- [Summary of Questions Debated and Methods to be Used]
- [The Debate]f
- [Final Debates on Settlement of Religion]1
- Whitehall, 13th January 1649 General Council1a
- PART III.: PURITAN VIEWS OF LIBERTYa
- I.: SOME PRINCIPLES OF THE PURITAN PARTIES
- II.: THE LAW OF NATURE
- III.: RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES OF RESISTANCE
- IV.: THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL: CHRISTIAN LIBERTY
- V.: THE PRIVILEGES OF THE SAINTS
- VI.: LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE
- VII.: MODELS OF A FREE CHURCH
- VIII.: LEVELLER PRINCIPLES1
- IX.: DIGGER PRINCIPLES
- APPENDIXa
- A.: THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW MODEL
- B.: THE ARMY ORGANIZES: MAY—JUNE 1647
- C.: THE READING DEBATES
- D.: DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PUTNEY DEBATES
- E.: DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE WHITEHALL DEBATES
- F.: RETROSPECT
- NOTES ON TEXT