English Dissenters or English Separatists were Protestants who separated from the Church of England in the 17th and 18th centuries. A dissenter (from...

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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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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distinguish between two categories of Dissenters, in addition to the evangelical element in the Church of England. "Old Dissenters", dating from the 16th and 17th...

especially that of Geneva. The later Puritan movement, often referred to as dissenters and nonconformists, eventually led to the formation of various Reformed...

Catholic Christian practices. Its adherents are called Anglicans. The English church traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing...

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...

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...

in the United Kingdom English Dissenters 17th century denominations in England McDowell, Nicholas (January 15, 2004). The English Radical Imagination:...

nonjurors. As Dissenters enjoyed better legal standing, interest in comprehension waned. After the Toleration Act was passed in May 1689, Dissenters were free...

1646 enabled independent churches to flourish. The main sects of English Dissenters were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism; Ranters, who claimed...

the new terms "free churchman" and "Free Church" started to replace "dissenter" or Nonconformist. Among the Methodist Churches, calling a church "free"...

consensus" was shattered. Many Puritans were unwilling to conform and became dissenters. Now outside the established church, the different strands of the Puritan...

mother Catherine Blake (née Wright). Even though the Blakes were English Dissenters, William was baptised on 11 December at St James's Church, Piccadilly...

friends, particularly other Rational Dissenters, urged him to publish a work on the injustices experienced by Dissenters; the result was his Essay on the...

beliefs motivated their move from England to the New World. These English Dissenters, who also happened to be Puritans—and therefore Calvinists—, were...

England by Archbishop William Laud, and then moved similarly from the Dissenters by their denunciation of religious tolerance in England. Milton had come...

Speedwell was a 60-ton pinnace that carried a band of English Dissenters now popularly called the Pilgrims from Leiden, Holland, to England, whence they...

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...

seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, Protestants who did not conform to the Church of England...

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...

nations in the Pacific region. It has been introduced either by immigrant dissenters or by missionary organizations such as the London Missionary Society....

their beginning, Free Will Baptists, in common with many groups of English Dissenters and Separatists from the Church of England, followed Brownist notions...

(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...

John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English dissenting minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years...

of the Separation of the Church." Church History (1977), 421–36. "English Dissenters: Anabaptists". Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved...

trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that formed during the English Civil War. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes...

Christianity. A satire on the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and English Dissenters, it was famously attacked for its profanity and irreligion, starting...