The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 liberty of conscience for most Protestants who profess faith in the Trinity and the Holy Scrip ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 that the clergy’s right to them was jure divino, citing Mosaic Law that awarded the tenth to O ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 He completed and published the tract after their July 27 vote to continue tithes,^46 formally ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 the Secretariat, since he found Cromwell a better friend to toleration than most, and since he ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 cil’s servants, including Milton who was to receive £86.12s. of his annual salary of £200.^55 ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 victory over Booth’s royalist uprising (325). The self-described army of God be- haved reprehe ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 a flood of petitions denounced the army and called for the return of the Rump or for a new “fu ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 affected) people, law reform, schools to teach “all arts & sciences” and thereby make all ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 argues, Milton’s stop-gap proposal for its continuation “looks more unrealistic with hindsight ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 Way, joining his voice with those who, recognizing the agitation for a free parlia- ment as a ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 ment to a commonwealth and to toleration so as to keep the army under control, had the members ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 trusting to a new parliament.^82 Under pressure from Monk, however, they left on March 16, aft ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 their system into his: partial rotation in the permanent Grand Council, a process for refining ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 Charles the martyr, and his proposed commonwealth. But, in an effort to exalt his own service ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 Milton probably published his Brief Notes on Griffith’s sermon during the second week in April ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 L’Estrange’s insight points to what is probably Milton’s unspoken assumption, that his Grand C ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 costs of publication himself. All the other radical tracts published in the final weeks before ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 to his lawyer friend Cyriack Skinner, who probably suggested that strategy, but he lost the mo ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 1659 and after are couched in a plain style markedly different from his earlier more imagistic ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 The only external mark of true religion is the acceptance of scripture as the rule of faith, s ...