John Clarke and His Legacies

John Clarke and His Legacies
Author: Sydney James
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0271039221


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John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography of John Clarke (1609&–76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention, Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the colony&—perhaps more so than Williams. Williams was the first Baptist minister in America, but he left his church after a very short time. And although Williams won the first charter for Rhode Island, the charter soon had to be replaced. Clarke, however, founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to contribute to the Baptist community. And in 1663 he procured the royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in Rhode Island until 1842. This inquiry into Clarke's life engages a variety of intriguing topics. It surveys a formative stage in American Baptist history, one that spurned dependency upon government more thoroughly than any part of the United States does today. Through the experience of Clark, we see pioneering American religious volunteerism, problems of church-state relations, and the peculiar nature of colonial relations with the parent country.

John Clarke and His Legacies

John Clarke and His Legacies
Author: Sydney V. James
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780271028156


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John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography of John Clarke (1609-76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention, Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the colony--perhaps more so than Williams. Williams was the first Baptist minister in America, but he left his church after a very short time. And although Williams won the first charter for Rhode Island, the charter soon had to be replaced. Clarke, however, founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to contribute to the Baptist community. And in 1663 he procured the royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in Rhode Island until 1842. This inquiry into Clarke's life engages a variety of intriguing topics. It surveys a formative stage in American Baptist history, one that spurned dependency upon government more thoroughly than any part of the United States does today. Through the experience of Clark, we see pioneering American religious volunteerism, problems of church-state relations, and the peculiar nature of colonial relations with the parent country.

John Clarke and His Legacies

John Clarke and His Legacies
Author: Sydney V. James
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780271018492


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John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography of John Clarke (1609-76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention, Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the colony. Clarke founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to contribute to the Baptist community until his death. And in 1663 he procured the royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in Rhode Island until 1842. This inquiry into Clarke's life engages a variety of intriguing topics. It surveys a formative stage in American Baptist history, one that spurned dependency upon government more thoroughly than any part of the United States does today. Through the experience of Clarke, we gain many new insights into colonial legal and religious history. James gives particular attention to the charitable trust that Clarke set up at his death, which provides a striking example of the direction taken in the relations between church and state in colonial America.

Story of Dr. John Clarke

Story of Dr. John Clarke
Author: Thomas Williams Bicknell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1915
Genre: Rhode Island
ISBN:


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No Armor for the Back

No Armor for the Back
Author: Keith E. Durso
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780881460964


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English and American Baptists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries lived in two worlds. In one world, established churches were the norm and persecution was the means by which such churches and the civil governments dealt with religious dissenters. Yet these Baptists also lived in another world in which God's kingdom ruled and the sword of the Spirit (the Bible), not the sword of Caesar, settled religious disputes. When their two worlds collided, and they often did, many Baptists chose to go to prison rather than to violate their consciences by worshipping in churches that they abhorred, by listening to ministers whom they did not choose, and by submitting their spiritual lives to earthly magistrates. Early Baptists knew that they could avoid prison and other hardships if they yielded to the pressures of political and ecclesiastical authorities to conform. Many Baptists considered such yielding as a retreat from their cause and their God, believing that retreat would have been spiritually fatal. They chose instead to move forward in their faith, although it might cost them dearly. Thus, rather than retreat, these courageous Baptists advanced, some to prison and then back to freedom, others to jail and then to the grave. All, however, did so because, like Thomas Hardcastle, they knew that "There is no armor for the back." Baptists who graced numerous prisons and jails in England and in the American colonies did not remain silent, however, for they continued to preach and to write letters, poems, and books. These Baptists stated their cases without any self-pity and interpreted their persecutions as the natural consequences of professing their faith in Christ.

The Life of Dr. John Clarke

The Life of Dr. John Clarke
Author: Rev. Wilbur Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 19
Release: 1924
Genre:
ISBN:


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John Clarke (1609-1676)

John Clarke (1609-1676)
Author: Louis F. Asher
Publisher: The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc.
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2004-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781579783938


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The John Clarke Trust

The John Clarke Trust
Author: Barbara N. Watterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2013
Genre: Baptists
ISBN:


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Story of Dr. John Clarke, the Founder of the First Free Commonwealth, of the World, on the Basis of Full Liberty in Religious Concernments (Classic Reprint)

Story of Dr. John Clarke, the Founder of the First Free Commonwealth, of the World, on the Basis of Full Liberty in Religious Concernments (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas W. Bicknell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781332405275


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Excerpt from Story of Dr. John Clarke, the Founder of the First Free Commonwealth, of the World, on the Basis of Full Liberty in Religious Concernments About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Hero of Aquidneck

The Hero of Aquidneck
Author: Wilbur Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1938
Genre: Clergy
ISBN:


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