The glory of the 'third time': John Eaton as contra-puritan

Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 638-654

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EID: 61049213688     PISSN: 00220469     EISSN: 14697637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022046900014652     Document Type: Article

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22. Biographical dictionary, i, s.v. 'Eaton, John'. Eaton is treated sketchily in Stoever, Covenant theology, 138-41, 225-6.
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29. Reports of cases in the courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, ed. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, London 1886, 320.
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36. Deuteronomic punishments had already ceased in the second time: ibid. 103. The sharp divergence here from Luther's teaching is noted in Theodor Sippel, Zur Vorgeschichte des Quakertums, Giessen 1920, 15-16.
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