| Here the religious divisions that plagued English society, between churchmen, Dissenters, and papists, were presented in a peculiarly acute form. |
| He was born in Soho, London, where he lived most of his life, and was son to a hosier and his wife, both Dissenters. |
| The early Dissenters and Separatists of the late 15th century were his specialist study, and he became an authority on this subject. |
| As these Enlightened Dissenters were Trinitarians, they felt the need to demonstrate and justify the rationality of the scriptures and the validity of Christ's messiahship. |
| Mr. Platitude was filled with wrath, and abused Dissenters in most unmeasured terms. |
| And that of course, resulted in the development of what they used to call the Dissenters, or Nonconformists. |
