Trinterud Leonard Edited (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. xv, 454pp. Ex-library, with label on the spine and stamp on the front fly. Owner name on the front fly, spine lightly sunned, a few scuffs and bumps, very good.

Hardcover. xv, 454 p.; 23.5 cm. (A library of Protestant thought) Contains selections from original writings. Part one. The original, anti-vestment party: John Gough, John Foxe, The fortress of fathers (1566) -- part two. The passive-resistance party: Edward Dering, Peter Wentworth, The order of the prophecy at Norwich (1575), prefaces to the Geneva Bible -- part three: the Presbyterian party: William Fulke, John Knewstub, Eusebius Paget, James Morice -- Selected bibliography, p. 441-44; index, p. 445-54. `possibly the oddest thing about them is that, since the name first emerged in Elizabethan England around 1565, there has not been any agreement about who were Puritans or what was Puritanism.' (p. 3) The anti-vestment party `made the minimal conformity, accepted the church structure as it was established, and worked for reform through preaching and teaching, while urging obedience to authority upon their followers.' Most of the passive-resistance party `were in sympathy with proposals then current for eliminating the hierarchical structure of the church, and for either modifying or abolishing the episcopate and the ecclesiastical court system.' The Presbyterian party `demanded far-reaching structural changes in the church, in its administration and finances, and in the relation between church and state, as well as in doctrine and liturgy.' (p. 11-13) VG orig. red cloth in good price-clipped dj.