Description
Book SynopsisThis critical edition of the scribal publication 'Reformed Government' c. 1594 provides a unique point of entry into the 1590s. Recovering a pivotal moment in the history of puritan radicalism, it represents the most extensive reformed response to the onslaught of anti-puritan literature in the late sixteenth century.
Trade ReviewThis edition of the late-Elizabethan manuscript Reformed Government is masterly in execution. * Torrance Kirby, Church History *
Table of ContentsIntroductory Chapters 1: Rewriting the Elizabethan Civil Wars of Religion 2: Permissible Change: Richard Hooker, Machiavelli, and the 'Reformed Government' 3: Leveraging Historical Contingency: Christian Antiquity and Late Elizabethan Society 4: Reformed Monarchical Republicanism: A Scribal Reconstruction 5: The 'Reformed Government' 6: Reader Guide Reformed Government Preface to the Christian Reader 1: That the churchgovernment desired is the true, antient, primitive, catholick, & Apostolicall 2: Concerning the Circumstances of the Churchgovernment: and how it may stande united with the Civil governement and pollicy off this Kingdome with conveniency, and without any great alteration 3: That the Reformed Churchgovernment desyred, is farre from a Tyranny 4: That the Churchgovernment desired is possible 5: Of perpetuity of the desired Churchgovernment The Conclusion to the Reader
