UID:
almafu_9960119329602883
Format:
1 online resource (xxxi, 254 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-17026-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Content:
A Holy Commonwealth was written in 1659 by the Puritan minister Richard Baxter (1615-91), and proved to be the most controversial of all his works. He publicly repudiated it in 1670, and in 1683 the Oxford University authorities ordered it to be part of a book-burning that included the works of Hobbes and Milton. The scandal that surrounded it has obscured its merits as the most candid of confessions as to why a conservative Puritan fought for Parliament in the Civil War and gave his support to the Cromwells. The views it expresses are at variance with the cautious explanations given in Baxter's later memoirs (now seen as a less reliable source than past commentators have presumed). This edition of A Holy Commonwealth makes available to modern readers a work which offers a unique perspective on the relation between church and magistrate and the origins of the English Civil War.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Richard Baxter: a chronology A Holy Commonwealth Adam Contzen the Jesuites Direction s1. There is a God that is mans Creator 2. God is the Soveraign Ruler of Mankind 3. Of the Constitution of Gods Kingdome 4. Of the Administration of the Universal Kingdom 5. Of a subordinate Commonwealth in General 6. Of the several sorts of Commonwealths 7. Of the Foundation efficient and conveying causes of Power 8. Of the best form of Government, and Happyest Common-wealth 9. How a Commonwealth may be reduced to this Theocratical temper, if it have advantages, and the Rulers and People are willing 10. Of the Soveraigns Power over the Pastors of the Church, and of the difference of their Offices 11. Of the Soveraigns Prerogatives, and Power of Governing by Laws and judgement 12. Of due Obedience to Rulers, and of Resistance 13. Of the late Warres. Meditations Appendix: Preface to The Life of Faith (1670)
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-40580-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-40518-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139170260
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