03694oam 2200529I 450 991015461460332120230808200703.01-351-92428-11-315-25118-310.4324/9781315251189 (CKB)3710000000965438(MiAaPQ)EBC4758620(OCoLC)967392703(BIP)63369744(BIP)13882932(EXLCZ)99371000000096543820180706e20162009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierKatherine Chidley /selected and introduced by Katharine GillespieAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (142 pages) illustrationsThe Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Series II, Printed Writings, 1641-1700, Part 4 ;Volume 4First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-6231-4 1-351-92429-X Includes bibliographical references.Contents: Introductory Note -- The Ivstification of the Independant Churches of Christ -- Being an answer to Mr -- Edvvardes his Booke, which hee hath written against the government of Christs Chvrch, and toleration of Christs publike worship -- briefely declaring that the congregations of the Saints ought not to have dependancie in government upon any other -- or direction in worship from any other than Christ their Head and Lavv Giver -- London: Printed for William Larnar, 164 -- 1 A New-Yeares-Gift, or a Brief Exhortation to Mr -- Thomas Edwards -- That he may breake off his old sins, in the old yeare, and begin the New yeare, with new fruits of Love, first to God, and then to his bretheren -- London: [sl: sn], 1645 -- Good Counsell, to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government, That they may declare their Faith before they build their Church -- [London: sn, 1645].Katherine Chidley was a religious and political activist who dissented from the established church throughout the 1620s, 30s and 40s; supported the parliamentarian cause against the royalists during the English civil wars of the 1640s; and sided with the proto-democratic Levellers against the more authoritarian regime of Oliver Cromwell during England's short-lived but influential republican era of the 1650s. During the early years of the English civil wars, debates raged between radical separatists and those such as the Presbyterians who opposed the Anglican Church and its bishops while insisting that some sort of state control over religion be maintained. Thomas Edwards was one of those who hoped to persuade Parliament that a compromise should be reached between total conformity and complete religious freedom. Between 1641 and 1645, Chidley published three works disputing his anti-separatist arguments and promoting the far-reaching principle of the separation of church and state. These are reprinted in this volume along with Katharine Gillespie's excellent introduction to Chidley's life and works.Early modern Englishwoman.Printed writings, 1500-1640.Series 1, Part 4 ;Volume 4.Church polityEarly works to 1800Church and stateEarly works to 1800Church polityChurch and state262.983Chidley Katherine.953711Gillespie Katharine561995MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154614603321Katherine Chidley2666007UNINA