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Mystery of Iniquity (Hardcover)
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Mystery of Iniquity (Hardcover)
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Following the hapless Hampton Court Conference, little groups of
English Christians (Separatists) began to break away from the
established church. As early as 1606, one group, led by John Smyth,
migrated to Holland. Prominent among them was Thomas Helwys. In
1611/1612, Helwys and others returned home where they founded at
Spitalfield the first General Baptist congregation in England.
Helwys had with him a manuscript entitled A Short Declaration of
the Mystery of Iniquity in which he proposed the notion of liberty
of conscience, freedom of religion. This may have been the first
such declaration in English. Helwys published the manuscript in
1612. That publication probably cost him his freedom, perhaps even
his life. By the beginning of the twentieth century, only four
known copies of the book survived. Now, thanks to the careful work
of Richard Groves, Helwys's The Mystery of Iniquity is available in
a reader-friendly edition. Groves's introduction sets the document
in context, not only as an important and influential historical
event but as shedding yet more light on whence we have come.
Students, historians, Christians, Protestants, Baptists - all for
whom freedom of conscience is important will welcome this reissue
in modern dress of a religious liberty classic.
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