The Works of John Smyth, Fellow of Christ's College, 1594-8, Vol. 1 of 2

The Works of John Smyth, Fellow of Christ's College, 1594-8, Vol. 1 of 2 Synopsis

Excerpt from The Works of John Smyth, Fellow of Christ's College, 1594-8, Vol. 1 of 2: Tercentenary Edition for the Baptist Historical Society, With Notes and Biography

His edition of the works of John Smy'th offers the Opportunity for a pioneer to be studied at first hand. He had never been utterly forgotten, for when Americans who preferred to look to New England rather than to Virginia as the formative district of their nation, were telling its earliest story, they glanced casually at the friend of Brewster mentioned by Bradford; and when English Congregationalists were searching into their origins, they caught a glimpse of one who passed through their position. But in comparison with Browne and Robinson, Johnson and Ainsworth, or Jacob, Smyth has been but dimly known, chie?y by re?ected light, even to Hanbury in 1839.

Fifty years ago, Benjamin Evans broke new ground and printed many documents long unknown to English men, revealing Smyth's doings in Amsterdam. Further search by John Waddington, Robert Barclay and Henry Martyn Dexter was so far rewarded that a better back ground was afforded, and then the last named student earned thanks by recounting the True Story of Smyth as told by himself and his contemporaries, and by exposing a stupid forgery which bade fair to confuse the tale. His posthumous work on the England and Holland of the Pilgrims reverted to the earlier treatment of Smyth as an appendage to those heroes, while John Brown and Edward Arber had naturally adopted the same standpoint.

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