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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822597603321

Titolo

The acts of the witnesses : the autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and other early Muggletonian writings / / edited by T.L. Underwood [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773811-7

1-280-47056-9

1-4237-5999-0

0-19-535298-X

1-60256-287-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

289.9

Soggetti

Muggletonians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Editor's Introduction; 2 Lodowick Muggleton, The Acts of the Witnesses (1699); 3 John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, A Transcendent Spiritual Treatise (1652); 4 John Saddington, ''The Articles of True Faith'' (1675); 5 Thomas Tomkinson, ''The White Divell Uncased'' (1704); 6 Letters; 7 Songs and Miscellaneous; Appendix A: Alternate Epistle Dedicatory to The Acts of the Witnesses (1699); Appendix B: Sections in the First Edition (1656) Deleted from the Second Edition (1661) of A Divine Looking-Glass; Notes; Index of Persons; Index of Places;

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents writings produced by the Muggletonians - an unusual 17th-century English sect founded in 1652 by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton.