Protestant Nonconformist Texts Volume 3

This volume gathers and introduces texts relating to English and Welsh Nonconformity. Through contemporary writings it provides a vivid insight into the life and thought of the Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians, and other groups that formed pieces in the diverse mosaic of the nineteenth-century chapels. Each aspect of Nonconformity has an introductory discussion, which includes a guide to the secondary literature on the subject, and each passage from a primary source is put in context.An incredibly impressive anthology of nonconformist life and thought, which transcends the value of most documentary series. Here we have a cornucopia of nonconformity from which scholars, students, conformists and nonconformists, the pious and the impious, may all benefit.--Martin Fitzpatrick, co-editor of Enlightenment and Dissent The textual editing in all four volumes is of a very high standard.--Betty Hagglund, Project Development Officer for the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies A major aid to understanding the history and character of Nonconformity.--Henry D. Rack, author of Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism