THE BUNYAN LIBRARY: FOR THE PUBLICATION AND REPUBLICATION OF STANDARD WORKS BY EMINENT BAPTIST AUTHORS. VOL. VIII. THE EARLY ENGLISH BAPTISTS.-VOL. II. THE EARLY ENGLISH BAPTISTS. VOL. II. BY B. EVANS, D.D. LONDON: J. HEATON & SON, 42, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1864. C 8035110 ✓ UNIVERSITY Jackson Funk LONDON: PRINTED BY J. HEATON AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW. PREFACE. ONLY a very few words are necessary in introducing this volume to the attention of the reader. He will find in the preface to the former one the principles which have guided me, and the end I have had in view in writing this work. The few sentences I pen belong to the apologetic class. When I consented to prepare a sketch of Early Baptist History for the BUNYAN LIBRARY, I had no idea that it would swell into its present magnitude. As the work progressed, the materials multiplied; but I hoped that, by condensation, the present volume would exhaust my resources. Many of the incidents which form the staple of the works of my predecessors, have been reduced in this work to the narrowest bounds. I have done what, honestly and justly, I could do. Much that is new and illustrative of our history lies unused before me. The volume might have been enlarged greatly; but at some cost of feeling I have steadily checked this, and omitted much which might have given something like completeness to my outline. I have felt the evil of writing to order. My work is necessarily incomplete. Under other chapters, much would be introduced which forms an important element in Baptist history. Whether the outline already sketched in the first volume will |