TAYLOR, Thomas.
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Scarce third editions of three works by the important early Puritan Thomas Taylor (1576-1632). Taylor was a prominent member of the group of Perkins's disciples who came to embody the mainstream of moderate puritan divinity in early Stuart Britain. He had entered the pulpit at the age of twenty-one and preached at Paul's Cross before Elizabeth I and James I, but he soon clashed with the emerging anti-Calvinist wing of churchmen. At the university church in Cambridge he sharply attacked Archbishop Bancroft's campaign against puritan ministers. Samuel Harsnett, conducting Bancroft's metropolitan visitation in 1608, silenced Taylor and threatened him with degradation. (McGee). There followed a period of seventeen years during which Taylor did not hold any benefice, which he used to write. In his many published works, Taylor appears as a full-throated opponent of popery, separatism, and antinomianism. The first work examines repentance , a term which was used by Tyndale and subsequent English scriptural interpreters to translate the New Testament Greek .metanoia., which, as a sidenote from the Geneva Bible explains, signifieth a changing of our minds and heart from evil to better . Taylor s .The Practice of Repentance. is a guidebook to the topic of spiritual repentance; it outlines what true repentance is and the 'signs' by which it can be discerned, suggests a few 'helps' that can assist the believer in carrying out his duty of repentance, and warns the readers against several
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