The writings of the radical Welsh Baptist minister, William Richards, 1749-1818
By: selected, edited, and annotated, with an introduction and notes by John Oddy ; with a foreword by John Seed.
Contributors: Oddy, John.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780773450370
Subjects: Richards, William, -- 1749-1818 -- Correspondence; Baptists -- Doctrines
Genres: Correspondence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: William Richards's career and connections; title: Origins; title: Bristol student; title: Minister at Lynn; title: Storm and stress; title: Obloquy; title: Lincoln : an experiment; title: Unquelled; title: Richards and his friends; title: A preliminary note; title: Bristol Academy as a nexus; title: Richards and J.R. Jones (Ramoth); title: Lynn and thereabouts : friends, allies, and the interested; title: William Richards's portrait of Georgian Lynn; title: Willliam Richards comes to Lynn; title: Changes in Marshland, changes at Lynn; title: The Borough Corporation; title: Unfree freemen; title: Pretended gentlemen; title: Fairs; title: Markets; title: Trade; title: The custom house; title: The water supply; title: Libraries; title: Schools; title: Local Jews; title: Roman Catholics; title: St. Margaret's Church; title: The Presbyterians : their rise and recent collapse; title: Quakers; title: Baptists; title: Salem Chapel's free Christians; title: Methodists; title: Deists and sceptics; title: Freemasons; title: The Bedehouse; title: Paradise Hospital or Broad Street Almshouses; title: Benefit societies; title: Lynn's workhouse; title: William Richards on politics; title: Editorial essay : anger and ideals : Richards's political aspect; title: The old English and the slave trade; title: King George III; title: Britain's 'evil genius'; title: John Wilkes and John Thelwall; title: The American War of Independence; title: War begins with France; title: The younger Pitt's 'reign of terror'; title: The income tax; title: Atheism in France, anti-Christianity in Britain; title: 'Behold, ye fast for strife and contention'; title: On the assassination of Spencer Perceval; title: On the general peace; title: A model from the past : commonwealth Lynn; title: William Richards and religion; title: Editorial essay : sect, scripture, creed, charity, and eschatology in the thought of William Richards; title: On Holy Scripture's primacy and indispensability; title: On the Gospel, saving faith, and believer's baptism; title: A 'scriptural' christology; title: A 'scriptural' church-discipline; title: On anti-Christianity; title: Against religious intolerance; title: Against public fasts; title: Predestination; title: Against allegorical and other strange preaching; title: An eighteenth-century Norfolk eremite; title: The case of John Rastrick; title: William Richards, Wales, and America; title: A conspectus; title: Letter one: to the proprietor of the gentleman's magazine; title: Letters to a remarkable Welshman; title: Letter two: to William Owen (Pughe); title: Letter three: to William Owen (Pughe); title: Letter four: to William Owen (Pughe); title: Letter five: to William Owen (Pughe); title: Letter six: to William Owen (Pughe); title: Letters to Americans; title: Letter seven: to James Manning; title: Letter eight: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter nine: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter ten: William Rogers; title: Letter eleven: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter twelve: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter thirteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter fourteen: Isaac Backus; title: Letter fifteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter sixteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter seventeen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter eighteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter nineteen: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter twenty: Samuel Jones, Pennepek; title: Letter twenty-one: William Rogers; title: Henry Gregory : a faithful Welsh nonconformist; title: Hengoed : tolerance and disruption; title: Envoi: The 'Christian philosopher'.