Giles Firmin and the Transatlantic Puritan Tradition: Polity, Piety, and Polemic

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 “Scholarly and Strangely Courteous Controversies”: Firmin’s Ecclesiastical Identity in the 1640s and 1650s
	1 Firmin’s Experience to 1651
	2 Firmin’s “Interpendency” in the Early 1650s
	3 Growing Presbyterian Identity in the Later 1650s
	4 Sects, Quakers, and the Power of the Magistrate
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 2 “Nor Yet a New-Style Episcopalian”: Firmin’s Writings in the Early 1660s
	1 Laudians, Moderates, and the Problem of Re-Ordination
	2 Gifted Ministers and the Imposition of the Liturgy
	3 The Solemn League and Covenant, Primitive Episcopacy, and Tyrannical Prelacy
	4 Conclusion
Chapter 3 “Truth and the Lambs of God Must be Regarded”: Firmin on Effectual Calling, Faith, and Assurance
	1 The Real Christian in Context
	2 Preparation for Salvation: against Shepard and Hooker
	3 Defining Faith: for and against the Rogers and Perkins
	4 Effectual Calling, Self-Love, and the Glory of God
	5 Imposing Duties on a “Christian Constituted”
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 4 “What Episcopacy Is It You Mean?” Conscience, Schism, Anti-Popery, and the Edward Stillingfleet Debate
	1 Erastians and Latitudinarians against Dissenting Schismatics in the 1670s and 1680s
	2 	The Latitudinarians on the Separation and Schism of Dissenters
	3 Stillingfleet’s Polemics in the 1680s
	4 Dissenting Replies to Stillingfleet and Anglican Polemics
	5 Firmin’s Position vis-a-vis Presbyterian Dissent
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 5 “Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm’d”: Firmin, Federalists, and Anabaptists in the 1670s and 1680s1
	1 Henry Danvers, Thomas Grantham, and the Paedobaptist/Anti-Paedobaptist Debate
	2 Of Quakerism, Popery, and the Slippery Slope
	3 Exegetical and Hermeneutical Disputes
	4 The Matter and Form of Baptism
	5 Pastoral Concerns
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 6 “The Gospel is a Law”: Firmin, Free Grace, and Justification in 1690s Context
	1 The Antinomian Conflict, 1690–1698
		1.1 Antinomianism and Polemics
		1.2 Antinomianism and Neonomianism in the Polemics of the 1690s
		1.3 Free Grace and Justification, 1690–1694
		1.4 Richard Davis, Antinomianism, and the Fragmentation of the Happy Union
		1.5 Firmin on Justification and Assurance
		1.6 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Index