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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st thus, missing d/j, red cloth boards (slight label residue on spine), gilt on black panel spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp; ex library with some highlighting. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A Holy Commonwealth was written in 1659 by the Puritan minister Richard Baxter (1615Ð91), 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…
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Baxter: A Holy Commonwealth Hardcover - 1994
by Richard Baxter; William Lamont (Editor)
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- Title Baxter: A Holy Commonwealth
- Author Richard Baxter; William Lamont (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition N/A
- Pages 292
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date 1994-05-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780521405188 / 0521405181
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.81 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.06 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Church and state, Great Britain - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93008970
- Dewey Decimal Code 941.063
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