1643 SYDRACH SIMPSON. Westminster Assembly Puritan Argues for Freedom of Religion and Liberty of Conscience. Prayer and Prayer Meetings Designed to Shew the Importance

Designed to Shew the Importance of Hearing the Word

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1643 SYDRACH SIMPSON. Westminster Assembly Puritan Argues for Freedom of Religion and Liberty of Conscience. Prayer and Prayer Meetings Designed to Shew the ImportanceA superb sermon preached in the heat of the English Civil War by one of the champions of religious liberty among them. Sidrach Simpson [1600 1655] was an Independent in the Westminster Assembly and thoroughly opposed to those Presbyterians who would "replace a Pope with a Presbyter." He, along with Jeremiah Burrough, William Bridge, etc,. were opposed to legislating the particulars of religion and had deep ties to many of the American