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self-governing Presbyterian Church. The statistics of so vast a number of fully organized Presbyterian Churches, besides others more sporadic in all quarters of the globe, indicating as they do that the Alliance represents 20,000 Presbyterian congregations, with 4,000,000 communicants and 20,000,000 adherents, are fitted to enlighten any who may still be under the impression that Presbyterianism is chiefly a Scottish mode of worship, and may well surprise even those who are not wholly unacquainted with the world-wide diffusion of the Presbyterian method of Church government. Presbyterianism has done much to solve some intricate and difficult Church problems already, such as that of a Free Church in a Free State, and a free conscience in a free, Evangelical, and international Church system. It does not profess itself to be a finality, but it may not unlikely come nearer than any other mode of Church administration to the great Union Church of the future.

Its own uniting time has come. Its divisions are being healed, and its organizing power is being manifested in generous forms all over the world. While, therefore, it carries forward its own work in its own way, Presbyterianism in England may help various religious sections of the community into closer relations and happier understanding with each other, while none the less faithful to its own essential principles. A quiet, dignified, earnest, attention to the spiritual necessities of the people and to its own work of Church consolidation and evangelical extension, and not any noisy zeal of ecclesiastical partisanship, may best enable it to act wisely and efficiently as emergencies arise, and to verify anew its ancient motto,—

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The bush did burn with fire, and yet it was not consumed.

INDEX.

Aaron's Rod Blossoming, 301, note.
Abbeys. See Monasteries. Many grew
beyond episcopal jurisdiction, 18.
Abbot, George, succeeds Bancroft as
Archbishop of Canterbury, 242; is
superseded, 246, 263.

Abbots, First episcopal or mitred, in
England, 18, note; removed from
House of Peers at destruction of the
monasteries, 24.

Abney, Sir Thomas, Presbyterian Lord
Mayor of London, 490.

Academies, Dissenting, 510-11, note;
Presbyterian one at Warrington, 524.
Act of Supremacy, 92, 93, 94; Unifor-
mity, see Uniformity; Conventicle,
Test, Five Mile, and Oxford Acts, 393;
Toleration, 427, seq.; for Presbyterian
Security, 558.

Admonition to Parliament, First, 137;
Second, 151.

Elfric of Malmesbury, A.D. 994; de-
scribes the Presbyters as highest order,
16; disavows Transubstantiation, 16.
Aidan, St., of Northumbria, 12, 13.
A'Lasco, John, Polish Reformer and
London pastor, born A.D. 1499, his
writings, 40; of noble family and
highest prospects, 41; surrenders all,
becomes Protestant, leaves Poland,
41; at Louvain and Emden in East
Friesland, 42; his work at Emden,
42; accepts invitation to England,
43; his high influence at Court, 44;
the great charter given him for
Church of the 'Strangers by Edward
VI., 45; first Presbyterian organiza-
tion of Churches legally allowed, 40;
his influence on Second Prayer Book,
48; a Royal Commissioner to revive
Ecclesiastical law, 48; leaves England
on accession of Mary, 49; his work in
Poland, 49, 50; his letter to Queen
Elizabeth, 50.

Alb, or long white tunic, 52, note.
Alban, St., first British martyr, 8.
Alban's, St., Abbot of, first mitred or
episcopal abbot and spiritual peer, 24.
Albigenses, 18.

Alleine, Joseph, 369, note.

Alliance of Presbyterian or Reformed
Churches, 630.

Alsop, Vincent, 457, 473, 492.
Altare Damascenum, by David Calder-
wood, the Thesaurus of Presbyterian-
ism, 240, note.

Ambrose, Isaac, 394, 398.

America, Origin of Presbyterianism in,
334-341; English Presbyterian minis-
ters in, 334, 335, 340.
Amice (Amictus), 52, note.
Amphiballus, early missionary in Bri-
tain, 8.

Anderson, Dr. James, of London, 556;
of Morpeth, 576, note, 578, 626.
ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH. Difference from
earlier British Church, 14, note; con-
tained strong representative princi-
ples, 15; its affairs managed by Church
Councils, 15; its clergy married, 15;
Bishops not a separate order in, 16;
no cathedrals in, 16;its churches, 16.
Anne's, Queen, reign, 494-6.
Annesley, Dr., leading Presbyterian mi-

nister in London, 456, 457, 529, 584.
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, A.D.

1093, says Bishop and Presbyter differ
only in degree, not in order, 18, note.
Arianism, 499; among Presbyterian
ministers, 500; in early Episcopal
Churches, 512, note.

Arles, Council of, A.D. 314, 9.
Arminianism, 243 and note.
Articles, The Thirty-nine formed, 99;
distinction of DOCTRINAL and Disci-
plinary, 133, 187; the thirty-five
Doctrinal Articles, and the place they
held after 1688, 429, 446; the Lam-
beth Calvinistic Articles, 243; the
Whitgift Test Articles, 187-8.
Ashe, Simeon, 276, 308, 360, 374.
Assembly, Westminster, Parliament
calls, 287; constitution, 288; leading
members, 288-9; swears to Solemn
League and Covenant, 291; transac-
tions 1643-1649, 295; Directory of
Worship, 296; form of Presbyterial
government, 300; collision with Par-
liament, 302; Confession of Faith
and Catechisms, 303.

Associations, Ministerial, under Com-
monwealth, 365; in Worcestershire,
365; in Cumberland and Westmore-
land, 367; in Cheshire, 368; in Shrop-
shire, Flint, and Welsh border, 369.
Athanasian Creed, 431.
Augustine of Canterbury, 10.
Autonomy of the Church, 295, 301.
Aylmer, Bishop of London, originally
Puritan, 183, note; becomes severely
opposed to Puritans, 181, note; Spen-
ser assails him, 184.

Bacon, Lord, his views on Puritan posi-

tion, 197, note.

Baillie, Principal Robert, his letters and
journals, 269, note, 289, note, 295,
note; a Commissioner to England,
269; Member of Westminster Assem-
bly, 292, 299; his views of Church
government, 354, note.
Bancroft, Bishop of London and after-
wards Archbishop of Canterbury, 143;
his book on Dangerous Positions and
Proceedings for Presbyterial Disci-
pline, 143; first to maintain the
Divine right of Diocesan Episcopacy,
225; attacked by Dr. John Rainoldes,
226, note; scene with Melville, 239,
note.

Bangor, or Welsh Bancornbury, 412,

note.

Baptists, early, disavow all religious
coercion, 353, note.

Barbour, G. F., Sketch of Presbyterian
Church of England, 3, note.
Baxter, Richard, his Presbyterianism,
367, note; his pious zeal, 366; his
Life and Times, 375, note; his desire
for Christian union, 366, 374; at the
Savoy Conference, 381; his liturgy,
382; his sufferings as an ejected
minister, 405; his literary activity,
404.

Becon, Thomas, Cranmer's chaplain,

Catechism, 110, note; Bishop and
minister, he thinks the same, 110.
Bede, Venerable, account of Iona and
its Church constitution, 11, note;
account of Oswald and Aidan, 13.
Belsham, Thomas, Rev., Unitarian
leader, 536, 538.

Bernicia, 12.

Berwick-on-Tweed. See Knox, 571, 610.
Beza, Theodore, 105, 120, 137 and
note.

Bishops, in Scripture, same as Presby-

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ters, 8; not diocesan in early
Churches, 8; Elizabeth's first, Cal-
vinistic and inclined to Presbyterian-
ism, 96; ejected from House of Lords
in 1642, 277, 284.

Bishops' War" against Scotland, first
and second, 265.

Black, Rev. John, references to, 513,
607, 611.

Blythe, Rev. James, and his family,
578-9, note.

Book of Sports, 320 and note.

Booth, Sir George, leads Presbyterians

in Cheshire, 371, 395, 417; becomes
Lord Delamere, 396; obligations of

suffering Presbyterians to the Booths
of Dunham Massey, 396.
Bourne, Samuel, 508.
Bourne, William, 321.
Boyle, Hon. Robert, 339.

Boyse, Joseph, leading Presbyterian
minister in Dublin, 499, note.
Bradford, John, the martyr, 318.
Breda, Declaration from, by Charles II.,
373, 377, 381, 417.

Brightman, Dr. Thomas, a leading
Presbyterian minister, 235, note.
Britain, Entrance of Christianity into, 8.
British Bishops, of what kind, 9, 10;
Church, 8; colleges, 10; monasteries,
10; councils, 10; chronicles, 10.
Brownists, 196.

Bruen, John, Cheshire Puritan, 331
and note.

Bucer, Martin (German name, Kuhorn),
Reformer at Strasburg, 29; invited to
England by Cranmer, and arrives at
critical juncture A.D. 1549, 30; draws
up Ordination form which is used in
Prayer Book, 31; he himself holds
Presbyterian views, 31, 32; his Scripta
Anglicana, 30, note, 34, 36; differences
between Ordinal and his form, 33;
his Presbyterianizing draft of Church
reform for Edward VI. in 1551, 34-
38; dies Theological Professor at
Cambridge, 35.

Bullinger of Zurich, the sponsor and
foster-father of early English Re-
formers, 54, 103; Hooper's letters to
him, 55; Utenhove to him, 59; Sandys
to him, 108.

Burning of heretics begun by statute,
A.D. 1401, 21.

Burns, William C., missionary to China,
627.

Busher's, Leonard, Plea for Liberty of
Conscience, 353, note.

Cadwalla, apostate Welsh king, 12.
Calamy, Edmund, the elder, one of the
writers of Smectymnuus, 270; leading
London Presbyterian minister, 308,
312 and note, 374, 375.

Calamy, Dr. Edmund, the younger, 387,
note, 451-3, notes, 503, 506.
Calderwood, David, his Church History
and his Altare Damascenum, 240,
note.

Calvin, 37; his great influence in Eng-
land, 96.
Calvinism, the prevailing theology of
the Reformers and early divines in
England, 242-3, note.

Calvinistic Methodists or Presbyterians

in Wales, 594, seq.
Cambridge (England) University of,
113; Puritanism in, 113, 117; statutes
and regulations of, 117, note, 120,

note.

Cambridge (New England) 336; The
Cambridge Platform, 336 and note.
Candida Casa (Whit-horn) 9.
Carlyle, Thomas, on Knox's Puritanism,
86.

Cartwright, Thomas, the Presbyterian

leader, 111; Lady Margaret Divinity
Professor, 113; his views summed up
in six Articles, 118; deprived of his
Professorship, 118; lives abroad, 120;
writes the Second Admonition, 151;
his contest with Whitgift, 151, 153;
writes the Directory, or Book of Disci-
pline, 160; his stand against the ex-
officio oath, 219; his sufferings, 152,
195, 219; retires to Warwick, 196;
his death, 239.

Cassock (caracalla), 53, note.

Catechism, Assembly's Shorter, 303, 508.
Cawton, Thomas, 405.

Celtic Churches, early missionary work
of, 10.

Chadderton, Dr. Lawrence, 237, note.
Chalmers, Thomas, 611.

Chalmers, Principal William, 612.
Chandler, Dr. Samuel, 508, 530 and note.
Channel Islands, Presbyterianism esta-
blished in 164-174.

Charke, William, Presbyterian Puritan,
120, note, 146.

Charles I., his Presbyterian baptism,
244; his difficult position on coming
to throne, 244; Laud his chief eccle-
siastical counsellor, 246; his inter-
meddling policy in Church matters,
255, 261; re-issues Book of Sports,
320; meets with rebuff, 262; his in-
fatuated policy, 264; his Scottish dis-
asters, 265; passing Bill for ejecting
Bishops, his last constitutional act,
277; collision with Parliament, 409;
successful in earlier campaigns of
civil war, 289; his move on London,
306; corresponds at Newcastle with
Alexander Henderson on Presbytery,
568; Presbyterians oppose and con-
demn his execution, 315, 348, 356.
Charles II., Presbyterians promoted his
Restoration, 417; his Declaration
from Bredà, 417; his Worcester
House Declaration, 376; seems at
first to favour Presbyterians, 376,
378; yet thoroughly opposed to them,

635

377, 400; his Indulgence of 1672, 393,
note; his hypocrisy, 400; his despot-
ism, 402, 406.

Charles, Rev. Thomas, of Bala, 599,
600.

Chasuble, the sacerdotal vestment, 52,
note.

Cheshire, its early Puritans, 331; its
Presbyterian ministers, 332, 333; its
attestation, 332.

Chester, Siege of, 330; description of,
330.
Clarendon, Lord, 375, 376, 377, 381;
his history, 378, note; his life, 390
and note.

Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 498.
Cobham, Lord. See Oldcastle.

Cole, Dr. William, takes part in Knox's
Liturgy, 77, 83.

Comprehension Bill, 430–431.
Congregational Board Fund, 465, 523,
notes, 576, note, 609, note.
Congregational Union, 605, note.
Congregationalists, present designation
of Independents, 605, note.

Consultation, or Directory, of Archbishop
Hermann, 31.

Conventicula (conventicles), 9.
Convocation, first Reformed, 99; critical
votes in, 99; unworthy conduct, 91;
suspended by Government, 497.
Cope (cappa), 52, note.

Corporation Act, 490.

Council of Arles, A.D. 314, 9; Rimini,
A.D. 359, 9.

Councils, Early British, 10.
Covenant, Solemn League and, 289,
290; sworn to by Parliament and
Westminster Assembly, 291; to be
distinguished from Scottish National
Covenant, 292; taken thrice by Charles
II., 386; Pension Parliament orders
it to be burnt, 383; copies curiously
preserved, 383, note; Act of Unifor-
mity required abjuration of, 385.
Coverdale (ex-Bishop of Exeter), an
Elder in John Knox's Church at
Geneva, 80; takes part in consecra-
ting Archbishop Parker in Genevan
cloak, 95; is neglected by Elizabeth,
and dies in poverty because he was
against "the habits," 102, note.
Cranmer, 25, 30, 34, 44, 48, 61, note,
67.

Crisp, Dr. Tobias, 470.
Cromwell, Oliver, swears to Covenant,
292; Self-denying Ordinance, profits
by, 314; seizes London, 314; his
relations to Presbyterians, 315, 359,

361, note; his Protectorate, 362; his
ecclesiastical policy, 363; his charac-
ter, 363; his death, 370.
Cromwell, Richard, 370; sympathizes
with Presbyterian party, 370.

Dangerous Positions. See Bancroft.
Deering, Edward, Presbyterian leader,
157.

Defoe, Daniel, Presbyterian, 490, 494,
495, note.
Deira, 12.

Dennesburn, Great battle of, near Hex-
ham, 12.

Dering, Sir Edward, 273; introduces
Bill for abolishing Episcopacy, 282.
Devonshire Presbyterianism, 365, 466-
468.

D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, Presbyterian

Member of Long Parliament, 129;
value of his journals of Parliaments
of Elizabeth, 129, note.
Dinoth of Bangor, 412, note.
"Diocese " (the word) first used offi-

cially in England, A.D. 1138, 15, note.
Directory of Presbyterian Government,
Cartwright's, 160, 161; Westminster
Assembly's, 298-300, 449; of Public
Worship, 296.

Discipline, The, 38, 57, 121; Book of,

161; Demonstration of, see Udall.
Dissenters, 428, 442, 459, 591; The

Three Denominations, 614, 615, 616;
Regium Donum of, 609, note.
Dissenters' Chapel Bill of 1844, 620, note.
Doctrinal Puritans, The, 223.

Dod, John, the Decalogist, subscribes
Presbyterian Book of Discipline, 241.
Doelittle, Rev. Thomas, 479, 480, note.
Dort, Synod of, 242-3.
Dunstan, 15.

Dutch Presbyterian Church, 255, 257,263.

Edinburgh, or Edwinburgh, Frontier of
Bernicia, 12.

Edward VI., 34, 35, 38 and note, 46, 57.
Edwards, President Jonathan, 341.
Edwin, King of Deira, 12.

Edwin, Sir Humphrey, Presbyterian
Lord Mayor of London, 490.
Eldership, Theories of the, 298.
Eliot, John, Apostle of the Indians, 337;

his Presbyterial views, 337, 338; his
work and writings, 339 and note.
Elizabeth, Queen, her Accession, 1558,
89; a Protestant chiefly on political
grounds, 90, 91; her Protestantism
a compromise, 90; is made Supreme
Governor in Church, 93 and note; in-

sists on her prerogatives, 91; and on
uniformity, 101; severely opposed to
Puritans, 107; imprisons the early
Presbyterians, 104, 139; sways the
Church of England to her own mind,
130; suppresses the prophesyings,
177; her treatment of Grindal, 182;
her second High Commission against
Puritans, 189; inexorable to the
Presbyterian Udall, 216; her dimin-
ished popularity and death, 233.
Emlyn, Thomas, the Arian, 499, note.
Erskine, Ebenezer, 558, 571.
Erskine, Henry, 571.

Essex, Presbyterianism in, 327 and
note; its fourteen Presbyteries, 329;
testimony of its ministers, 329, 353.
Exempt jurisdictions, what? 224; and
non-Episcopal Ordinaries, 224, note.
Exercises. See Prophesyings.
Exeter, The ASSEMBLY at, 501; Its Pres-
byterian meeting-houses, 500,501,note.
Exiles, English, in Frankfort, 73, 74; in
Geneva, 80.

Fairfax, Lord General and Lady Fair-
fax as Presbyterians, 293, 294.
Faerie Queene, Spenser's, its Puritan
idea and sympathy described, 227-29.
Fenn, Humphrey, Presbyterian preacher
at Coventry, 188, 221, note, 225, note.
Fenner, Dudley, 202, 203, 205, notes.
Field, John, early Presbyterian, 137;
he writes the first Admonition to
Parliament, 137; imprisoned, 140;
his connection with the first Presby-
tery at Wandsworth, 143; endorses
Bill, or Order of Wandsworth, 143,
145, 147; letter of, 193, note.
Filmer, Sir Robert, 401, 402.
Flavel, John, Devonshire Presbyterian,
467.

Foreign Churches in England, 107, 246,
note. See A'Lasco.

Founders' Hall, Presbyterian Church at,
553-4. See London Wall.

Foxe, John, his Acts and Monuments, or
Book of Martyrs, set in churches, 102;
referred to, 21, 61, note; takes part
in Knox's Liturgy, 76, 77; ejected
for refusing the surplice, 102, note.
Frankfort, English exiles in, 74.
Fulke, Dr. William, thinks Bishop and
Presbyter one, 110 note, 220; author
of A Learned Discourse of Eccles.
Gort., or, A brief and plain Declara-
tion for Discipline, 202, note.
Fuller, Dr. Thos., Church History of
Britain, 12, 74 and note, 220.

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