This important book deserves to be read widely and its results incorporated into the way the story of early Baptists is told. THE EXPOSITORY TIMESA well documented historical reassessment of the place these believers held in the early Stuart era. (...) (This) work will hopefully lead to further studies of the early English Baptists. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLYOffers an in-depth reading of the primary and secondary sources of English Baptist origins and provides several provocative revisions to standard treatments of the era. BAPTIST HISTORY & HERITAGEDemonstrate(s) the rich diversity characteristic of Baptist belief in the period and the complex inter-relationships between different leaders, congregations, and groupings.it thus offers an important contribution to a fuller understanding of the English Revolution. JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORYWright's volume is very much to be welcomed moving as it does beyond the traditional debates. REVIEWS IN HISTORYA significant contribution to our understanding about how Baptists developed in the 1640s and why they belonged to differing factions. (...) For anyone seriously interested in looking at Baptists beginnings in seventeenth-century England, Dr Wright has set down a challenge which cannot be ignored. BAPTIST QUARTERLYA most impressive and well-argued work. BAPTIST UNION OF SCOTLAND NEWSThis erudite work must be read by those interested in the origins of the Baptist traditions. CONGREGATIONAL HISTORY CIRCLE MAGAZINE
