Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
Prohibited books -- England -- Bibliography
I have not been able to discover the titles or even the existence
of these books. On June 10th, 1645, the Assembly of Divines
attended the House of Commons, and being called in represented
the blasphemies of one Paul Best against the Deity of our Saviour
Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost, contained in books, treatises,
and notes of his, and in his answer to twelve Interrogatories
drawn out of the writings of the said Paul Best; and they desired
that the Parliament would use that authority they were intrusted
with, for executing of condign punishment upon an offender of so
high a nature; that, in reference to the crime, he might be made
exemplary: "that all the world may know, how much you detest such
prodigious blasphemies, and heresies of so fearful a nature." It
was thereupon referred to the Committee of plundered ministers,
to examine, with all diligence, the truth of the fact of the
informations against Paul Best, of divers prodigious blasphemies
against the Deity of our Saviour and the Holy Ghost, contained
in notes and writings of the said Paul Best, and that they bring
their opinions to the House with all speed, what they think fit
to be done in the business, and it was resolved that Best should
be forthwith committed close prisoner to the Gatehouse Prison. On
January 28th, 1645/6, it was further resolved that an ordinance be
prepared and forthwith brought in for punishing with death Paul
Best for his "abominable, prodigious, horrid blasphemies."[103]
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Comfort for Beleevers about their Sinnes and Troubles, in a treatise
showing that true Beleevers, how weake soever in faith, should not
be opprest, or perplexed in heart by anything whatever befalls
them either in sin or afflictions. By John Archer, Master of Arts,
sometime Preacher of All Hallowes, Lumbard Street, London. London,
1645.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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