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John Lightfoot's Journals of the Westminster Assembly (Hardcover)
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John Lightfoot's Journals of the Westminster Assembly (Hardcover)
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What has by convention been called 'John Lightfoot's journal' is in
fact a four-volume series of journals, the first of which has never
been published. The journals are presented here in their entirety
for the first time. John Lightfoot's journals cover a period in the
author's life when he was a member of the famous 'assembly of
divines' meeting in Westminster Abbey. The Westminster assembly
(1643-1653) was comprised of approximately thirty members of
parliament and 120 ministers. By the outbreak of the war in England
in 1642, a majority in the Long Parliament had come to see it as
its duty to renovate the Church of England, both bringing it into
line with a more biblical code and up to date with the best
Reformed Churches. Lightfoot's personal diary is of critical
importance to assembly history because his meticulous little
volumes supply the only account of the assembly's activities for
sessions 1-44, and the only fulsome account for sessions 120-154,
where the assembly's own minutes are missing. For the sessions
where the assembly's minutes are extant, Lightfoot offers another
set of eyes, often supplying additional information and a
perspective differing from the assembly's own scribe. These
sessions record the gathering's opening ceremonies, surprising
fractious debates over the Thirty-nine Articles, and predictably
heated conflicts between Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and
Congregationalists over church governance. Lightfoot describes
riots outside parliament, names meeting places for MPs and assembly
members in London, and attempts to explain assembly dynamics in a
way that The Minutes and Papers of the assembly do not. The
four-volume journal ends abruptly after eighteen months, in
December 1644. The body of this volume contains the full text of
Lightfoot's surviving journals, accompanied by interpretive
introductions for each session and editorial notation throughout.
The introduction sets in context the author's life prior to and
during the Westminster assembly and discusses the careful
composition, potential audience, and checkered transmission of the
journals.
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