Joseph Ivimey, Pilgrims of the Nineteenth Century, and Anticatholicism in Dissenting Politics

Abstract

This essay explores opposition to Catholic Emancipation among evangel-ical Dissenters through the Baptist minister, Joseph Ivimey. His 1827 text, Pilgrims of the Nineteenth Century, treats religious toleration, Protestant Dissenters, and Catholicism in an increasingly-outdated per-spective. During the early nineteenth century, the principled right to reli-gious freedom became an important element of the Dissenters’ campaign against the Test and Corporation Acts.