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A Critique of Dr Stoughton’s Church of the Restoration
The review commends Dr Stoughton as a careful biographer but faults his history for excessive mercy toward Restoration era figures. It urges stricter judgment of church and state actors, notes Miltonic rigor missing, and argues for a harsher, more fiery historiography than gentle tolerance. The piece praises the volume’s thorough detail on prominent ecclesiastical and political figures while urging greater moral firmness.
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Dr. Stoughton
Episcopal Party
Algernon Sidney
William Russell
Louis the Fourteenth
Naseby
Marston Moor
Church of England
France
Charles II
Milton
Calamy
Cromwell
Ironsides
Bunyan
Bedford
Richard Baxter
Jefferies
Tindal
Stoughton
William
Guardian
Europe