“I have endeavoured to set in array, for the use of common readers, all…” — Joanna Baillie

“I have endeavoured to set in array, for the use of common readers, all the texts of the New Testament bearing upon a certain point of faith, leaving every one to judge for himself from the general tenor of the whole.”

A laywoman's insistence that belief should rest on scripture, not party · Letter defending A View of the General Tenor of the New Testament

Joanna Baillie

About Joanna Baillie

11 September 1762–23 February 1851

Joanna Baillie was born on 11 September 1762 at the manse of Bothwell, near Hamilton in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and died on 23 February 1851 at Hampstead, then a village on the northern edge of London. During her exceptionally long life, she became one of the most admired British writers of the Romantic period: a poet…

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