The Baptist movement in Cromwellian Ireland displayed a number of distinctive features. Adherents of the movement regularly claimed to have heightened spiritual experiences, which in a number of cases included firsthand encounters with the devil. This article observes the political contexts in which these claims were made while analyzing attempts by Baptist leaders to promote a more critical spirituality and counter illegitimate claims to supernatural experience. It argues that these unusual experiences, reflective more of their geographical than their denominational context, were rhetorically enabled, and Baptist leaders would struggle to both sustain and contain claims to spiritual experience.

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“无法形容的恐怖”：克伦威尔爱尔兰的魔鬼和浸信会传记

克伦威尔爱尔兰的浸信会运动表现出许多鲜明的特点。该运动的追随者经常声称他们的精神体验有所提高，在许多情况下包括与魔鬼的第一手接触。本文观察了提出这些主张的政治背景，同时分析了浸信会领导人促进更批判的灵性和反对对超自然体验的非法主张的尝试。它认为，这些不寻常的经历更多地反映了他们的地理环境而不是他们的宗派背景，在修辞上是可行的，浸信会领袖将努力维持和遏制对精神体验的要求。