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This book presents writings produced by the Muggletonians---an
unusual seventeenth-century English sect founded in 1652 by John
Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton. The volume draws on documents from a
recently discovered Muggleton archive and rare seventeenth-century
tracts. Among those included are Muggleton's autobiography,
excerpts from works co-written by Muggleton and Reeve, letters,
songs (including ones composed to celebrate Muggleton's release
from prison), and miscellany.
The mid-seventeenth century saw both the expansion of the Baptist
sect and the rise and growth of Quakerism. At first, the Quaker
movement attracted some Baptist converts, but relations between the
two groups soon grew hostile. Public disputes broke out and each
group denounced the other in polemical tracts. Nevertheless in this
book, Underwood contends that Quakers and Baptists had much in
common with each other, as well as with the broader Puritan and
Nonconformist tradition. By examining the Quaker/Baptist
relationship in particular, Underwood seeks to understand where and
why Quaker views diverged from English Protestantism in general
and, in the process, to clarify early Quaker beliefs.
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