Description

Basil Blackwell, London, 1947. Hardcover, 192 pp. Second Edition. Acceptable+ in good dust jacket. Pale green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Moderate underlining and margin notes in pencil throughout, including on front paste-down, but no pen or highlighting. Dust jacket has a few small chips and tears and moderate overall scuffing, aging and light soiling. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] Since the beginning of this century the importance of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit for Christian thinking and living has received increasing recognition. Dr. Nuttall here studies it in reference to the seventeenth-century Puritans, for whose faith and experience it proved central. He deals with such problems as its relation to Scripture, and to man's intellect and conscience, asking how we are to distinguish God's Spirit from our own spirits. He also shows its effect on 'prophesying' and lay preaching, liturgical and free prayer, sacramental doctrine and practice, and further on politics through the ideal of toleration and 'the rule of the saints.' Special attention is paid to the beginnings of Quakerism, which here appears in its immediate historical context, as largely a natural development of radical Puritanism.