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III. Philip Nye on Church and State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

D. Nobbs
D. Nobbs
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Philip Nye was one of the most important of the early Independents. His youthful allegiance to the cause, and his exile from 1633 to 1640 in Holland, gave him a breadth of outlook and an experience of congregational churches which effected a greater balance of his natural abilities. He has been coupled with John Goodwin as one of the most original minds among later Puritans. Returning from Holland, he soon had occasion to display his talents. As a representative to the Westminster Assembly he became one of the group of dissenting ministers which challenged the validity of the Presbyterian system of church government. The five “Holland Ministers” resisted the alien centralising policy of the Scottish Presbyterians. During the Protectorate, Nye became more prominent in ecclesiastical politics, but the Restoration forced him into the background. He died in 1672, serving an Independent church in London as its “doctor”.

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Cambridge Historical Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , 1935 , pp. 41 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1935

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References

1 D[ictionary of] N[ational] B[iography].

2 Peel, [A Hundred] Eminent Congreg[ationalists], p. 36.

3 London, 1683. All quotations in Section 11 are from this work.

4 London, 1687. All quotations in Section III are from this work.

5 London, 1683. All quotations in Section IV are from this work.

6 [An] Apologetical Narration [Humbly Submitted to the Honourable Houses of Parliament], 1643, p. 23.

7 Apologetical Narration, p. 4.

8 Apologetical Narration, p. 19.

9 On the other hand see Milton, [Treatise of] Civil Power [in Ecclesiastical Causes], London, 1659, for a later theory of Independency which adopted the principle of the Baptists.

10 See Duker, , [Gisbertus] Voetius, Leiden, 1893–1912.Google Scholar G. Voetius, Polit[ica] Eccles[iastica], Amsterdam, 1663–76. Gierke, , Natural Law [and the Theory of Society], transl. Barker, E., Cambridge, 1934, p. 92.Google Scholar