The Quest for the New Jerusalem, Jean de Labadie and the Labadists, 1610–1744

The pages that follow owe a great debt to the goodwill and guidance of many people, and I gladly express my thanks to them. The book grew out of my doctoral research on the life of Labadie, under the supervision of John McManners, then Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford and now chaplain of All Souls College, and my thanks are due to him for his enthusiastic support and clarity of insight. Others who have enriched my text with astute observations, fresh information, and copies of 'lost' texts are Jean-Daniel The History Of Jean De Labadie And The Labadists Has Re Ceived Attention Through The Years. That Attention, However, Has More Often Than Not Fallen Short In Its Tracing Of Labadie's 'double Migration'. Disaffected With The Established Church Order Of His Day And Motivated By A Sense Of Prophetic Mis Sion To Establish Again The Life Of The Primitive Church, This Spiritual Nomad Wandered From France To Switzerland, Then To The United Provinces, Germany And Denmark, According To The Vicissitudes Of The Times. As He Went, He Changed His Affiliations From 'high' Church Ever 'lower', From The Bosom Of Rome To Calvinism, Then To Congregational Separatism. Thus There Has Been Ample Reason To Treat Labadie's Life And Ministry Episodically, Be It A Geographical Or Denominational Episode, And A Solid Grounding Could Be Had By Piecing To Gether Several Of These (all Listed In Bibliography Part D): M. De Certeau On The Jesuit Years; X. De Bonnault D'houet On His Stay At Amiens; A-l. Bertrand On The 'lost Years' From Amiens To Montauban; J-h. Gerlach And W. Goeters On The Schism At Middelburg; P. Scheltema On Amsterdam; L. Holscher And G.e. Guhrauer On Herford; J. Lieboldt And H. Von Schubert On Altona; B.b. James And H.c. Murphy On The Colony In Maryland; L. Knappert On That In Surinam; And Any Number Of Authorities On The Labadists In Friesland. Yet There Are Sig Nificant Gaps. Front Matter....Pages I-XIII Early Years and Jesuit Training, 1610–1639....Pages 1-18 Jansenism in Picardy. Labadie from Bordeaux to Amiens, 1639–1644, and his retreat at Port-Royal-des-Champs....Pages 19-40 The Troubled Years. From Bazas to Montauban, 1644–1650....Pages 41-62 The Reformer among the Reformed. Labadie at Montauban, 1650–1657....Pages 63-86 In Demand. Labadie at Orange, 1657–1659, and his call to London....Pages 87-102 ‘A Second Calvin.’ Labadie at Geneva, 1659–1666....Pages 103-134 Storms and Schisms. Labadie at Middelburg and Veere, 1666–1669....Pages 135-172 ‘A Garden Walled Around’. Labadie at Amsterdam, 1669, 1670....Pages 173-192 ‘The Garden Prepared.’ Labadie at Herford, 1670–1672....Pages 193-219 ‘The Garden in Flower’, Labadie at Altona, 1672–1674....Pages 221-239 One Heart and Soul. Labadists at Wieuwerd, 1675–1692....Pages 241-271 Disaster in the Jungle. Labadist Colonial Enterprise in Surinam, 1683–1719....Pages 273-288 Piety in the Plantations. Labadists at Bohemia Manor, Maryland, 1679–1722....Pages 289-311 Twilight of an Era. The Final Years in Friesland, 1692–1744....Pages 313-336 Back Matter....Pages 337-490 This book resulted from a desire to understand the role of pamphlets in the political life of that most curious early modern state, the Dutch Republic. In short, I began to view pamphlets not as repositories of historical facts but as a historical phenomenon in their own right. t. 1. Du pays de Foix à la cité d'Erasme.