An Apologeticall Narration

By Tho: Goodwin, Philip Nye, Sidrach Simpson, Jer: Burroughes, William Bridge.

[1643] was a theological tract submitted by five Independent preachers to the English Parliament on 3 January 1644 as a part of the debates taking place during the Westminster Assembly.

An Apologeticall Narration was written by Thomas Goodwin, Philip Nye, Sidrach Simpson, Jeremiah Burroughs, and William Bridge, sometimes referred to collectively as the "Five Dissenting Brethren.

[3] Despite the book deliberately seeking a moderate, indeed "apologeticall," tone, it launched an enormous amount of printed debate that definitively split the godly community into the presbyterian and independent factions.

[4] This included a rebuttal by Adam Steuart, published in February,[5] and a longer Antapologia by Thomas Edwards the same year.