Traces of the Kingdom

by Keith Sisman

This book traces the church of Christ in England who baptized believers for the remission of their sins prior to the Reformation and up to the period of the Restoration Movements, in Great Britain and America in the nineteenth century. Using rare documents and books held in the British and Cambridge University Library, in light of modern research, evidence is for One Thousand Years of the Churches of Christ in England.
Chapters include:

• The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus Apostasy – the falling away
• The early British church: Pelagius and St Patrick
• America – its early Christianity
• The early European Waldensians and Lollards
• Waldensians and Lollards
• Churches of Christ in the 1400 and early 1500s
• John Frith
• William Tyndale
• The Bow Lane, London, Church of Christ meeting in the 1530s
• Edward Wightman
• John Smith, Thomas Helwys and John Morton
• Dr. Daniel Featley (1578-1645)
• Churches of Christ in England in the 1600s
• Excerpts from a Church of Christ’s minutes in the 1600s
• Churches of Christ in England in the late 1600s and the Portsmouth Debate
• The North of England, Tottlebank, Ulverston, the Furness Fells, and later Churches of Christ

2nd edition

648 pages. Hardback.