The Nurturing of Righteousness: Sir Henry Vane on Freedom and Discipline

It is a scholarly commonplace that Sir Henry Vane was a millenarian. Little attention, however, has been paid to the specifics and the implications of Vane's millenarian creed. Vane sanctified freedom by giving it an apocalyptic schedule. He cultivated a vigorous rhetoric of authority and righteousness, enlisting freedom as discipline's partner rather than its rival in the business of obeying God.