Author: FEATLEY (Daniel):
Title: Katabaptistai kataptystoi. The Dippers dipt. Or, the Anabaptists Duck'd and Plung'd over Head and Ears, at a Disputation in Southwark. Also, a large and full Discourse of Their 1. Original. 2. Several sorts. 3. Peculiar Errours. 4. High Attempts against the State. 5. Capital Punishments: With an Application to these times. The Third Edition.
Description: London, Printed for Nicholas Bourne, at the South Enrance of the Royal Echange; and Richard Royston, n Ivie-Lane. 1645. Small 4to, 182 x 142 mms., pp. [20], 191 [192 blank], including engraved title-page (differently phrased), bound in 19th century half brown morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label; front joint rubbed and slightly worn, but a good copy. The Church of England clergyman Daniel Featley (1582 - 1645) seems unable to have noticed a disputation without wishing to take part in it. This work was published in the year of his death, with seven variations in the register and composition; and it was written while he was imprisoned in Lord Petre's house in Aldersgate Street. The Dippers dipt was his final work, and the very good article in ONDB describes it as the best of his prison writings: it "based on notes taken in October 1642 at a disputation with the Baptist minister William Kiffin in Southwark, but greatly expanded to form a polemical history of the Anabaptist movement since the Reformation. Later editions of the work were enlarged with further material, including Featley's speeches before the Westminster assembly, and a striking frontispiece by William Marshall entitled 'The discription of the severall sorts of Anabaptists with their manner of rebaptizing': the central scene shows some naked 'Virgins of Sion' being baptized in a river, flanked by a series of roundels depicting various sects and heresies, including the 'Separatist', the 'Enthusiast', the 'Libertine', and the 'Adamite'. The Dippers Dipt was by far the most successful of Featley's controversial writings, provoking a reply from the Baptist minister Henry Denne, Antichrist Unmasked (1645), and reaching a sixth edition in 1651 and a seventh in 1660." This appears to be ESTC R234938.

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