Acknowledgements Abbreviations and conventions List of illustrations Introduction: No self is an island: The validations of autobiographical truths 1. Any politic body: The polemics of conversion in the 1620s 2. Icons basilicae: Civil war and religious identity 3. 1653: Experiencing election in a true gospel-church state 4. Writing religious identities in Bedford: Exemplary lives in historical perspective 5. Beyond the lives of particular men Conclusion: Truth and consequences References Index
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