The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Some Dates
I	Introduction
1	A Biblical Culture	3
II	The Revolutionary Bible
2	Before 1640	47
3	Fast Sermons and Politics, 1640-1660	79
4	Metaphors and Programmes	109
5	The Wilderness, the Garden and the Hedge	126
6	Poverty, Usury and Debt	154
7	Political Divisions and the Civil War; Liberty and Libertinism	171
8	The Bible and Radical Politics	196
III	International Catholicism and National Politics
9	The Decalogue and Idolatry	253
10	Chosen Nation, Chosen People	264
11	Covenanted Peoples: Scotland and England	271
12	God is Leaving England	284
13	The Reign of the Saints	298
14	Antichrist and his Armies	314
15	'The Man of Blood'	324
IV	The Bible and English Literature
16	Some Biblical Influences	335
17	Milton, Bunyan and Marvell	371
V	The End of the Revolutionary Bible
18	The Bible and an Unequal Society	397
19	The Bible Dethroned	413
20	Unfinished Business	436
	Appendix A. God the Highwayman	443
	Appendix B. A Note on Liberation Theology	447
	Index of Biblical Persons and Places	453
	General Index of Persons and Places	456