| Sumario: | In his short but controversial publishing career, the radical Protestant polemicist Thomas Scott (ca. 1580–1626) claimed the right to address King James VI and I directly on foreign policy. Building on recent scholarship in rhetoric, religion, and affect, this article examines how Scott shapes a collective Protestant identity by targeting the passions. In creating this passion-based identity, he aims to counter a Roman Catholic enemy that the state seems incapable of opposing effectively. I consider how Scott fuses the role of the orator and the divinely sanctioned prophet in his pamphlets. My main focus is on Scott's inventive appeals to pathos , to the passions of his readers, in order to persuade them to agree with his political program and to put it into collective action.
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