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Excerpt from History of the Presbyterians in England: Their Rise, Decline, and Revival This, though a Sectional, will not, it is hoped, be found a Sectarian history. Written, no doubt, under deep and slowly-formed convictions which the author has not been careful to conceal, he has made every effort not to allow these to warp his judgment or embitter his style. The book has been prepared at the request of the Presbyterian Church of England's Law and Historical Documents Committee, over which the late Professor Leone Levi so long presided; but the author alone is responsible for everything about the work, except the financial arrangements, of which he has been generously and entirely relieved...
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Drawing on hitherto unexamined manuscripts, this book challenges the standard narrative that English presbyterianism was successfully extinguished from the late sixteenth century until its prominent public resurgence during the English Civil War.