John Milton's antiprelatical tracts are a series of five political pamphlets that attack the episcopal form of church leadership.
This publication started a pamphlet dispute between the two sides, and Hall published A Defence of the Humble Remonstrance against the Frivolous...
This tract was responded to with Vindication of the Answer to the Humble Remonstrance, from the Unjust Imputations of Frivolousness and Falsehood on 26 June 1641 by Smectymnuus.
The work is openly hostile to any need for a medium between the Bible and the individual reader, especially such mediation as is provided by an organized church.
Like his other tracts, Milton continues to attack the authority of church governments and liturgies while emphasizing how an individual's reading of the Bible is more important than other considerations.
[7] This tract includes a detailed discussion, in the preface of Book II, of Miltons views on literature and genres.