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A Holy Commonwealth was written in 1659 by the Puritan minister Richard Baxter (1615 91), and proved to be the most controversial of all his works. He publicly repudiated it in 1670, and in 1683 the Oxford University authorities ordered it to be part of a book-burning that included the works of Hobbes and Milton. The scandal that surrounded it has obscured its merits as the most candid of confessions as to why a conservative Puritan fought for...

First modern edition of a controversial seventeenth-century political and religious work.