LEADER 03694oam 2200529I 450 001 9910154614603321 005 20230808200703.0 010 $a1-351-92428-1 010 $a1-315-25118-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315251189 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965438 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758620 035 $a(OCoLC)967392703 035 $a(BIP)63369744 035 $a(BIP)13882932 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965438 100 $a20180706e20162009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aKatherine Chidley /$fselected and introduced by Katharine Gillespie 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (142 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aThe Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Series II, Printed Writings, 1641-1700, Part 4 ;$vVolume 4 300 $aFirst published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-6231-4 311 08$a1-351-92429-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents: 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]. 330 $aKatherine Chidley was a religious and political activist who dissented from the established church throughout the 1620s, 30s and 40s; supported the parliamentarian cause against the royalists during the English civil wars of the 1640s; and sided with the proto-democratic Levellers against the more authoritarian regime of Oliver Cromwell during England's short-lived but influential republican era of the 1650s. During the early years of the English civil wars, debates raged between radical separatists and those such as the Presbyterians who opposed the Anglican Church and its bishops while insisting that some sort of state control over religion be maintained. Thomas Edwards was one of those who hoped to persuade Parliament that a compromise should be reached between total conformity and complete religious freedom. Between 1641 and 1645, Chidley published three works disputing his anti-separatist arguments and promoting the far-reaching principle of the separation of church and state. These are reprinted in this volume along with Katharine Gillespie's excellent introduction to Chidley's life and works. 410 0$aEarly modern Englishwoman.$pPrinted writings, 1500-1640.$nSeries 1, Part 4 ;$vVolume 4. 606 $aChurch polity$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aChurch and state$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aChurch polity 615 0$aChurch and state 676 $a262.983 700 $aChidley$b Katherine.$0953711 701 $aGillespie$b Katharine$0561995 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154614603321 996 $aKatherine Chidley$92666007 997 $aUNINA