The writings of the radical Welsh Baptist minister William Richards (1749 - 1818)
Introduction: William Richards's career and connections -- Prelude -- Origins -- Bristol student -- Minister at Lynn -- Storm and stress -- Obloquy -- Lincoln : an experiment -- Unquelled -- Richards and his friends -- A preliminary note -- Bristol Academy as a nexus -- Richards and J.R. Jones...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lewiston, N.Y [u.a.]: Edwin Mellen Press
c 2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Richards, William 1749-1818
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Baptists
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B Richards, William (1749-1818) Correspondence |
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| Summary: | Introduction: William Richards's career and connections -- Prelude -- Origins -- Bristol student -- Minister at Lynn -- Storm and stress -- Obloquy -- Lincoln : an experiment -- Unquelled -- Richards and his friends -- A preliminary note -- Bristol Academy as a nexus -- Richards and J.R. Jones (Ramoth) -- Lynn and thereabouts : friends, allies, and the interested -- William Richards's portrait of Georgian Lynn -- William Richards comes to Lynn -- Changes in Marshland, changes at Lynn -- The Borough Corporation -- Unfree freemen -- Pretended gentlemen -- Fairs -- Markets -- Trade -- The custom house -- The water supply -- Libraries -- Schools -- Local Jews -- Roman Catholics -- St. Margaret's Church -- The Presbyterians : their rise and recent collapse -- Quakers -- Baptists -- Salem Chapel's free Christians -- Methodists -- Deists and sceptics -- Freemasons -- The Bedehouse -- Paradise Hospital or Broad Street Almshouses -- Benefit societies -- Lynn's workhouse -- William Richards on politics -- Editorial essay : anger and ideals : Richards's political aspect -- The old English and the slave trade -- King George III -- Britain's "evil genius" -- John Wilkes and John Thelwall -- The American War of Independence -- War begins with France (1793) -- The younger Pitt's "reign of terror" -- The income tax -- Atheism in France, antichristianity in Britain -- "Behold, ye fast for strife and contention" -- On the assassination of Spencer Perceval -- On the general peace (1814) -- A model from the past : commonwealth Lynn -- William Richards and religion -- Editorial essay : sect, scripture, creed, charity, and eschatology in the thought of William Richards -- On Holy Scripture's primacy and indispensability -- On the Gospel, saving faith, and believer's baptism -- A "scriptural" christology -- A "scriptural" church-discipline -- Antichristianity -- Against religious intolerance -- Against public fasts -- Predestination -- Against allegorical and other strange preaching -- An eighteenth-century Norfolk eremite -- The case of John Rastrick -- William Richards, Wales, and America -- A conspectus -- Letter one: to the proprietor of the Gentleman's magazine -- Letters to a remarkable Welshman -- Letter two: to William Owen (Pughe) -- Letter three: to William Owen (Pughe) -- Letter four: to William Owen (Pughe) -- Letter five: to William Owen (Pughe) -- Letter six: to William Owen (Pughe) -- Letters to Americans -- Letter seven: to James Manning -- Letter eight: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter nine: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter ten: William Rogers -- Letter eleven: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter twelve: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter thirteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter fourteen: Isaac Backus -- Letter fifteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter sixteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter seventeen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter eighteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter nineteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter twenty: Samuel Jones, Pennepek -- Letter twenty-one: William Rogers -- Henry Gregory : a faithful Welsh nonconformist -- Hengoed : tolerance and disruption -- Envoi: The "Christian philosopher |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-453) and indexes |
| ISBN: | 0773450378 |