This is the second volume in a four-volume edition of the writings of Lucy Hutchinson, which have never before been published in a collected edition.

• Part 1


• General Introduction: David Norbrook


• Selections from the Theological Notebook (DD/HU3)


• Introduction: David Norbrook


• Textual Introduction: Jonathan Gibson


• 1: 'Notes out of The Institutions of Mr Iohn Calvin'


• 2: Translation of the Centum Aphorismi


• 3: 'My owne faith and attainment'


• 4: 'A breifer summe of what I belieue'


• 5: 'Concerning selfe examination whither wee haue interest in Christ'


• 6: 'Arguments to prooue the Scripture the word of God'


• 7: 'The loue of God'


• 'On the Principles of the Christian Religion'


• Introduction: Elizabeth Clarke


• Textual Introduction: Jonathan Gibson


• 'Of Theologie'


• Introduction: Jane Stevenson


• Part 2


• Commentary


• Theological Notebook


• 'On the Principles of the Christian Religion'


• 'Of Theologie'


• Appendix: Preface to the 1817 Longman edition


• Select Bibliography and Abbreviation List


• Index

Elizabeth Clarke ran the Perdita Project at Warwick and is now working on individual women such as Elizabeth Isham and Hester Pulter. She gained the 2016 MLA prize for Best Scholarly Edition for the 2015 5-volume Oxford University Press edition, John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources. She is also working on an introduction to George Herbert for the series 'Writers and their Work'.
David Norbrook is Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford. He has been founder and Director of Oxford's Centre for Early Modern Studies, and an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America.
Jane Stevenson is Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen. Her principal academic publications are The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore (CUP, 1995), Early Modern Women Poets, with Peter Davidson (OUP, 2001), and Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (OUP, 2005).