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Title: The True Story of Robert Browne (1550?-1633-Father of Congregationalism, including various points hitherto unknown or misunderstood, with some account of the development of his religious views, and an extended and improved list of his writings.
Description: Oxford: Printed By Horace Hart At The University Press / London: Published By Henry Frowde, 1906 . 0. An original booklet with a dedication from the author. 8vo. pp.8/pp.75 . Soiled grey card wraps with printed title. Edges chipped with small loss to corners and top & tail of spine. Handwritten note to top of title-page: "Principal George P. Gould, M.A. With the writer's best compliments." Clean English text throughout. G+. ** "Robert Browne (1550? – 1633) was the founder of the Brownists, a common designation for early Separatists from the Church of England before 1620. In later life he was reconciled to the established church and became an Anglican priest. Browne was the first seceder from the Church of England and the first to found a church of his own on Congregational principles. By 1581 he had attempted to set up a separate church in Norwich; he was arrested but released on the advice of William Cecil, his kinsman. Browne and companions left England and moved to Middelburg in the Netherlands later in 1581. There they organised a church on what they conceived to be the New Testament model, but the community broke up within two years owing to internal dissensions. His most important works, A Treatise of Reformation without Tarying for Anie, in which he asserted the right of the church to effect necessary reforms without the authorisation of the civil magistrate; and A Booke which sheweth the life and manners of all True Christians which set out the theory of congregational independency, were published at Middelburg in 1582. The following year two men were hanged at Bury St Edmunds for circulating them. He is considered the father of the Congregational body in the English-speaking world, and "The Father of the Pilgrims" due to the Mayflower passengers in 1620 being part of the Brownist movement." - See Wikipedia.

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