143:'s provisions for religious liberty. They marked the moment when the house's attempts to suppress sectarian radicalism faltered. Parliament was dissolved in January 1655, which ended the proceedings against Biddle, and he was released in May of that year. Biddle found himself in trouble only weeks later when the
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0830839658 2012 p. 188 "John Owen (1616–1683) is widely recognized as the greatest of the seventeenth-century
Puritan theologians.... A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, as also of the Person and Satisfaction of Christ (1699).81 In these two works, one of Owen's
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primary concerns is to establish by appeal to
Scripture the preexistence and eternity of the Son.82 He directs most of his arguments to John Biddle, a Socinian who is often called 'the father of English Unitarianism'."
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near London, was there deposited by the
Brethren, who soon after took care that an altar monument of stone should be erected over his grave with an inscription thereon."
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Biddle's appeal for conscience was one of the major milestones of the establishment of religious freedom in
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in the following parliament, but is now less well known because the Biddle case was recorded in much less detail in the parliamentary diary.
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The case against Biddle was as significant as the better known case against the Quaker
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