International John Bunyan Societyさんのイラストまとめ

📢EXCITING NEWS 📢Extended deadline for the Society's annual Early Career Essay Prize. Submissions due in 30 June 2022. Cash Prize £300! Details 👇 https://t.co/hs34GoA1RH https://t.co/lbDkRY5SHa

On the left Madame Cellier stands beside the overturned Meal-Tub, on the right Sir George Wakeman holds "A bill for £15000 to poison the King", behind him the scene of the execution of Viscount Stafford at the Tower of London. On the left three Turks observe the conclave. 4/5

On either side are angels, one carrying a flaming sword and holding a model of the church, the other with a banner and the crown of England that has been protected by the witnesses. 2/5

A 1681 satirical broadside on the #PopishPlot, with an engraving on two levels (thread). At the top, the apotheosis of the witnesses to the Plot (Titus Oates, Miles Prance, Stephen Dugdale & William Bedloe) sitting on clouds, crowned with laurel wreaths by two cherubim. 1/5

📢 EXCITING NEWS 📢 Submissions are now open for the Society's annual Early Career Essay Prize. This year's theme is on the spatial & spiritual geographies of religious dissenters during the Long Reformation. Cash prize £300! Details 👇https://t.co/ZCAEGJdEfW

In July 1691 an elderly Richard Baxter exhibited a ‘great fainting or sinking in the Pulpit’. It appeared he was ‘in all probability near to Death’ (he died that same year). Here Baxter lived up to this reputation of being one who ‘preach[ed] as a dying man to dying men’. https://t.co/9rWH4TXpq3

'The Sucklington Factions, or Roaring Boyes' (1641) alleged that some #Royalists 'scorne an Alehouse' & instead 'daily haunts Tavernes', where 'by his liquor' they 'like the Elephant through the juice of #Mulberries' are 'enraged unto bloud & most damnable resolutions'.

The #Presbyterian clergyman Isaac Ambrose (baptised 1604-1664) made these remarks in his diary about the aftermath of the battle of #Preston (1648), where he was the resident preacher. These were later printed in his 'Media, the Middle Things' (1649). https://t.co/EhLURnzYGr

Once an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty was signed in the spring of 1654, #Oxford University issued a collection of laudatory poems dedicated to #Cromwell entitled 'Musarum Oxoniensium Elaiophoria' (1654) whose authors included a young John Locke. https://t.co/RYipwVsZtj

For his victories in #Ireland, Cromwell was hailed as 'one of the wisest and most accomplished Leaders, among the present and past Generations'. Today historians debate the cost of those victories & the manner in which they were achieved. #HistoryMatters 2/2