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    English Dissenters or English Separatists were Protestants who separated from the Church of England in the 17th and 18th centuries. A dissenter (from...
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  • however, it designates Protestant Dissenters referred to in sec. ii. of the Act of Toleration of 1689 (see English Dissenters). The term recusant, in contrast...
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    Diggers English Dissenters English Revolution First English Civil War, 1642 First English Civil War, 1643 First English Civil War, 1644 First English Civil...
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  • Helwys died in prison as a consequence of the religious conflict with English Dissenters under James I. Baptist historian Bruce Gourley outlines four main...
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    Recusancy (redirect from Recusants, English)
    Scotland Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège Crypto-papism Dissenter English Dissenters Dowry of Mary Nonconformism Papist Priest hole Roman Catholic...
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    Congregationalists), plus the Baptists, Brethren, Methodists, and Quakers. English Dissenters such as the Puritans who violated the Act of Uniformity 1558 – typically...
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    Puritans, Separatists, Independents, English religious groups coming out of the English Civil War, and other English Dissenters not satisfied with the degree...
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    Catholic Christian practices. Its adherents are called Anglicans. The English church traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing...
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    Joseph Priestley (category English Dissenters)
    friends, particularly other Rational Dissenters, urged him to publish a work on the injustices experienced by Dissenters; the result was his Essay on the...
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  • Muggletonianism (category English Dissenters)
    seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." Religion in the United Kingdom English Dissenters 17th century denominations in England This is extensively argued in...
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    Protestantism (category Use American English from November 2021)
    especially that of Geneva. The later Puritan movement, often referred to as dissenters and nonconformists, eventually led to the formation of various Reformed...
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    Geneva Bible (category English Reformation)
    Bible was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War, in the booklet...
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  • Brownists (category English Dissenters)
    were a Christian group in 16th-century England. They were a group of English Dissenters or early Separatists from the Church of England. They were named after...
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    Seekers (category English Dissenters)
    in the United Kingdom English Dissenters 17th century denominations in England McDowell, Nicholas (January 15, 2004). The English Radical Imagination:...
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    consensus" was shattered. Many Puritans were unwilling to conform and became dissenters. Now outside the established church, the different strands of the Puritan...
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    William Blake (category English Dissenters)
    mother Catherine Blake (née Wright). Even though the Blakes were English Dissenters, William was baptised on 11 December at St James's Church, Piccadilly...
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  • 1646 enabled independent churches to flourish. The main sects of English Dissenters were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism; Ranters, who claimed...
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    the new terms "free churchman" and "Free Church" started to replace "dissenter" or Nonconformist. Among the Methodist Churches, calling a church "free"...
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    Mary Anning (category English Dissenters)
    education for the poor. Her prized possession was a bound volume of the Dissenters' Theological Magazine and Review, in which the family's pastor, the Reverend...
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    John Milton (category English Dissenters)
    England by Archbishop William Laud, and then moved similarly from the Dissenters by their denunciation of religious tolerance in England. Milton had come...
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    Priestley Riots (category English Dissenters)
    burned not only the homes and chapels of Dissenters, but also the homes of people they associated with Dissenters, such as members of the scientific Lunar...
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    beliefs motivated their move from England to the New World. These English Dissenters, who also happened to be Puritans—and therefore Calvinists—, were...
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    their beginning, Free Will Baptists, in common with many groups of English Dissenters and Separatists from the Church of England, followed Brownist notions...
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    John Harvard (clergyman) (category English Dissenters)
    John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English dissenting minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years...
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    Christianity. A satire on the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and English Dissenters, it was famously attacked for its profanity and irreligion, starting...
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    trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that formed during the English Civil War. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes...
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  • seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, Protestants who did not conform to the Church of England...
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    deny the Holy Trinity". The Act of Toleration (1689) gave relief to English Dissenters, but excluded Unitarians. The efforts of Clarke and Lindsey met with...
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    Puritans (redirect from English Puritans)
    (clergy or lay) who "dissented" from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The Dissenters divided themselves from all other Christians in the Church of England...
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    Diggers (category Articles containing Middle English (1100-1500)-language text)
    The Diggers Heritage Project Staff. The English Diggers (1649–50), Digger Archives Staff. English Dissenters: Diggers, ExLibris Staff. An index page:...
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