A Question in Baptist History: Whether the Anabaptists in England Practiced Immersion Before the Year 1641?; With an Appendix on the Baptism of Roger Hardback -

A brief account of King George's Pamphlets may be recorded here. These were brought together by the royalist bookseller, George Thomason. When the Long Parliament assembled in the year 1640 there was a sensible relaxation of the authority both of Church and State in England. By consequence the public press was immediately employed by all sorts of people to a much larger extent than had been possible hitherto. Publications of every kind came teeming from it. About the year 1641 Mr.

Thomason conceived the idea of preserving these for the uses of history, and he began by collecting as many as he could lay his hands on from the pre ceding year. His enterprise was continued um weariedly for more than twenty years, down to the year 1662. Being himself a bookseller, and situated at the center of London trade, he enjoyed facilities that could scarcely be improved upon. Few publica tions of any sort escaped his attention. His mate rials were duly arranged in chronological order, and he was careful in most instances to inscribe with ink upon the title page the date on which the respective works appeared, together with indications regarding the authorship wherever the same might be known to him. They constitute a large library, and are unrivaled sources for the history of that period.

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