The Theology of John Smyth: Puritan, Separatist, Baptist, Mennonite

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Mercer University Press, 2003 - 310 من الصفحات
The first book-length analysis of the thought of the first English Baptist

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Sixteenth and SeventeenthCentury Background
1
English Background
3
Dutch Background
19
Smyths Life Debates and Writings
41
Separatist Stage
46
Baptist Stage
71
Mennonite Stage
83
Smyths Use of Typology
97
Reason for Smyths Views
196
Debate with the Separatists
201
Conclusion
207
Smyths View of Christ
209
Smyths Early Christology
214
Smyths Christology as a Mennonite
220
Smyths Revisions to His Christology
234
Smyths Acceptance of Mennonite Christology
238

Smyths Typological Interpretation of Scripture
99
Smiths Use of Typology in Defending His Theology
106
Smyths Mennonite Typology
119
Conclusion
126
Smyths View of Covenant
127
The Covenant of the Separatists
128
Smyths Separatist Writings
135
Smyths Baptist Writings
145
Smyths Mennonite Writings
152
Modern Views on Smyths Use of the Covenant
157
Conclusion
164
Smiths View of General Atonement
167
Svnyths Rejection of Reformed Views
174
Source of Smyths Views
182
Conclusion
242
Smyths View of Church and State
245
Smyths Writings on Church and State
255
Source of Smyths Thought
266
Relationship with Other Aspects of Smyths Theology
279
Comparison of Smyth with Thomas Helwys
282
Conclusion
287
Conclusion
289
Smyths Mennonite Doctrine
291
Smyths Influence on the General Baptists
292
Bibliography
295
Index
307
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الصفحة 136 - His truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.4 And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
الصفحة 50 - God's grace and spirit. Yet seeing themselves thus molested and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joint consent they resolved to go into the low countries, where they heard was freedom of religion for all men...
الصفحة 48 - Xotingamshire, some of Lincollinshire, and some of Yorkshire, wher they border nearest togeather. In one of these churches (besids others of note) was Mr John Smith, a man of able gifts, & a good preacher, who afterwards was chosen their pastor.
الصفحة 49 - But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them.
الصفحة 136 - So many therefore of these professors as saw the evil of these things, in these parts, and whose hearts the Lord had touched with heavenly zeal for his truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and, as the Lord's free people, joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the Gospel...
الصفحة 50 - So after they had continued together about a year. and kept their meetings every Sabbath in one place or other. exercising the worship of God amongst themselves. notwithstanding all the diligence and malice of their adversaries. they seeing they could no longer continue in that condition. they resolved to get over into Holland as they could. Which was in the year 1607 and 1608: of which more at large in the next chapter.
الصفحة 140 - McCoy and J. Wayne Baker, Fountainhead of Federalism: Heinrich Bullinger and the Covenantal Tradition (Louisville Ky.: Westminster/John Knox, 1991), 47-50; for Aquinas on the right to oppose tyranny, Summa Theologiae II-II, q.
الصفحة 232 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
الصفحة 92 - Smyth they had contended that the "magistrate is not by virtue of his office to meddle with religion or matters of conscience, to force and compel men to this or that form of religion or doctrine, but to leave Christian religion free to every man's conscience, and to handle only civil transgressions, injuries, and wrongs of man against man, in murder, adultery, theft, etc.

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