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Book The Heavenly Trade  Or  The Best Merchandizing

Download or read book The Heavenly Trade Or The Best Merchandizing written by Bartholomew Ashwood and published by . This book was released on 1679 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Middling Sort

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  • Author : Margaret R. Hunt
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN : 0520916948
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book The Middling Sort written by Margaret R. Hunt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Thanks to her exploration of many family papers and court records, Hunt is able to examine what people thought, felt, and valued. She finds that early capitalism and early modern family life were far more insecure than their "classical" models supposed. Commercial needs and social needs coincided to a large extent. The family is central to Hunt's story, and she shows how financial struggles brought conflict, ambiguity, and tension to the home. She investigates the way gender intertwined with class and family hierarchy and the way many businesses survived as precarious successes, secured through the sacrifices made by female as well as male family members. The Middling Sort offers a dynamic portrait of a society struggling to minimize the considerable social and psychic dislocation that accompanied England's launch of a full-scale market economy.

Book Soul Recreation

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  • Author : Tom Schwanda
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2012-04-11
  • ISBN : 1630879509
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Soul Recreation written by Tom Schwanda and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritually there is a great hunger today for contemplative and more satisfying experiences with God. Puritanism might seem to be an unlikely source for this, yet few groups in the history of Christian spirituality have written more extensively or wisely on the subject. Isaac Ambrose (1604-64), a relatively forgotten English Puritan, developed a theological foundation for the spiritual life based upon the Christian's intimate union with Christ, which the Puritans often called "spiritual marriage." Schwanda demonstrates that this vibrant relationship of union and communion with Jesus, inspired by the Holy Spirit, was manifested in a deep contemplative piety of gazing lovingly and gratefully upon God. At the same time, Ambrose did not neglect loving his neighbors. This study reveals how heavenly meditation was one of the significant practices engaged by Ambrose to cultivate spiritual intimacy and enjoyment of God. Further, his experiential reading of Scripture, in particular the Song of Songs, provided him with a language of ravishment and delight in God. This book provides a distinctively Protestant foundation for recovering the contemplative life while recognizing the significant contributions of the Western Catholic tradition.

Book Publishing Business in Eighteenth century England

Download or read book Publishing Business in Eighteenth century England written by James Raven and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England. The impact of non-book printing has been long neglected. A raft of jobbing work serviced commerce and finance while many more practical guides and more ephemeral pamphlets on trade and investment were read than the books that we now associate with the foundations of modern political economy. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have no prior training in the printing house but who took up the sale of publications as another commodity. This book examines the broader social relationship between publication and the practical conduct of trade; the book asks what it meant to be 'published' and how print, text and image related to the involvement of script. The age of Enlightenment was an age of astonishing commercial and financial transformation offering printers and the business press new market opportunities. Print helped to effect a business revolution. The reliability, reputation, regularity, authority and familiarity of print increased trust and confidence and changed attitudes and behaviours. New modes of publication and the wide-ranging products of printing houses had huge implications for the way lives were managed, regulated and recorded. JAMES RAVEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.

Book Defoe   Spiritual Autobiography

Download or read book Defoe Spiritual Autobiography written by George A. Starr and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1965 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Defoe and Spiritual Autobiography, will be forthcoming.

Book The Term Catalogues  1668 1709 A D   1683 1696

Download or read book The Term Catalogues 1668 1709 A D 1683 1696 written by Edward Arber and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca annua

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1701
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Bibliotheca annua written by and published by . This book was released on 1701 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Acceptable Sacrifice  or the Excellency of a broken heart  shewing the nature  signs and proper effects of a contrite spirit     With a preface prefixed thereunto  by an Eminent Minister of the Gospel in London  George Cokayn

Download or read book The Acceptable Sacrifice or the Excellency of a broken heart shewing the nature signs and proper effects of a contrite spirit With a preface prefixed thereunto by an Eminent Minister of the Gospel in London George Cokayn written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1718 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boston Book Market  1679 1700

Download or read book The Boston Book Market 1679 1700 written by Worthington Chauncey Ford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ravished by Beauty

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  • Author : Belden C. Lane
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-21
  • ISBN : 0199830398
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Ravished by Beauty written by Belden C. Lane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel exploration of Reformed spirituality, Belden C. Lane uncovers a "green theology" that celebrates a community of jubilant creatures of all languages and species. Lane reveals an ecologically sensitive Calvin who spoke of himself as ''ravished'' by the earth's beauty. He speaks of Puritans who fostered a ''lusty'' spirituality in which Christ figured as a lover who encouraged meditation on the wonders of creation. He presents a Jonathan Edwards who urged a sensuous ''enjoyment'' of God's beauty as the only real way of knowing God. Lane argues for the ''double irony'' of Reformed spirituality, showing that Calvinists who often seem prudish and proper are in fact a people of passionate desire. Similarly, Reformed Christians who appear totally focused on divine transcendence turn out at times to be closet nature mystics, exulting in God's glory everywhere. Lane also demonstrates, however, that a spirituality of desire can be derailed, ending in sexual excess and pantheism. Ecologically, holy longing can be redirected from a contemplation of God's splendor in the earth's beauty to a craving for land itself, resulting in disastrous misuse of its resources. Between the major chapters of the book are engaging personal essays drawn from the author's own love of nature as a Reformed Christian, and providing a thoughtful discussion of contemporary issues of species diversity and the honoring of an earth community.

Book Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science  Literature and Art

Download or read book Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science Literature and Art written by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Book Ore from the Puritans  Mine

Download or read book Ore from the Puritans Mine written by Dale Smith and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ore from the Puritans’ Mine is the go-to collection of quotes from the English Puritans.

Book The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

Download or read book The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

Download or read book Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent written by Robert Strivens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical Dissent in the early eighteenth century had to address a variety of intellectual challenges. How reliable was the Bible? Was traditional Christian teaching about God, humanity, sin and salvation true? What was the role of reason in the Christian faith? Philip Doddridge (1702-51) pastored a sizeable evangelical congregation in Northampton, England, and ran a training academy for Dissenters which prepared men for pastoral ministry. Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent examines his theology and philosophy in the context of these and other issues of his day and explores the leadership that he provided in evangelical Dissent in the first half of the eighteenth century. Offering a fresh look at Doddridge’s thought, the book provides a criticial examination of the accepted view that Doddridge was influenced in his thinking primarily by Richard Baxter and John Locke. Exploring the influence of other streams of thought, from John Owen and other Puritan writers to Samuel Clarke and Isaac Watts, as well as interaction with contemporaries in Dissent, the book shows Doddridge to be a leader in, and shaper of, an evangelical Dissent which was essentially Calvinistic in its theology, adapted to the contours and culture of its times.