Giles Firmin and the Transatlantic Puritan Tradition: Polity, Piety, and Polemic

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A book on the life and writings of Giles Firmin (1613/14–1697), situating him in the intellectual milieu of late seventeenth century puritanism. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 “Scholarly and Strangely Courteous Controversies”: Firmin’s Ecclesiastical Identity in the 1640s and 1650s 1 Firmin’s Experience to 1651 2 Firmin’s “Interpendency” in the Early 1650s 3 Growing Presbyterian Identity in the Later 1650s 4 Sects, Quakers, and the Power of the Magistrate 5 Conclusion Chapter 2 “Nor Yet a New-Style Episcopalian”: Firmin’s Writings in the Early 1660s 1 Laudians, Moderates, and the Problem of Re-Ordination 2 Gifted Ministers and the Imposition of the Liturgy 3 The Solemn League and Covenant, Primitive Episcopacy, and Tyrannical Prelacy 4 Conclusion Chapter 3 “Truth and the Lambs of God Must be Regarded”: Firmin on Effectual Calling, Faith, and Assurance 1 The Real Christian in Context 2 Preparation for Salvation: against Shepard and Hooker 3 Defining Faith: for and against the Rogers and Perkins 4 Effectual Calling, Self-Love, and the Glory of God 5 Imposing Duties on a “Christian Constituted” 6 Conclusion Chapter 4 “What Episcopacy Is It You Mean?” Conscience, Schism, Anti-Popery, and the Edward Stillingfleet Debate 1 Erastians and Latitudinarians against Dissenting Schismatics in the 1670s and 1680s 2 The Latitudinarians on the Separation and Schism of Dissenters 3 Stillingfleet’s Polemics in the 1680s 4 Dissenting Replies to Stillingfleet and Anglican Polemics 5 Firmin’s Position vis-a-vis Presbyterian Dissent 6 Conclusion Chapter 5 “Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm’d”: Firmin, Federalists, and Anabaptists in the 1670s and 1680s1 1 Henry Danvers, Thomas Grantham, and the Paedobaptist/Anti-Paedobaptist Debate 2 Of Quakerism, Popery, and the Slippery Slope 3 Exegetical and Hermeneutical Disputes 4 The Matter and Form of Baptism 5 Pastoral Concerns 6 Conclusion Chapter 6 “The Gospel is a Law”: Firmin, Free Grace, and Justification in 1690s Context 1 The Antinomian Conflict, 1690–1698 1.1 Antinomianism and Polemics 1.2 Antinomianism and Neonomianism in the Polemics of the 1690s 1.3 Free Grace and Justification, 1690–1694 1.4 Richard Davis, Antinomianism, and the Fragmentation of the Happy Union 1.5 Firmin on Justification and Assurance 1.6 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index