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CONTENTS.
I.
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS: England before the Times of WICKLIFFE.
Importance of this discussion at the present day. Misconceptions
concerning the Puritans. Views of Hume. Principles not to be
measured by the occasion which calls them into debate. Princi-
ples of the Puritans not to be appreciated without some know-
ledge of their times. Plan of this work. England before the times
of Wickliffe,
. 15
II.
WICKLIFFE AND HIS TIMES.
His early life, and writings. Negotiation with Rome. His Prin-
ciples: Contrast these and modern Puseyism. Persecution of his
followers for a succeeding century,
. 25
III.
REIGN OF KING HENRY VIII.
The King and Martin Luther. He assumes the supremacy of the
Church. The King's Bible. Articles. Institution of a Christian
man." "Erudition of a Christian man.” Only two orders of the
ministry recognized as of Divine right, in the days of Henry, or
in the succeeding age. Evidence collected by Stillingfleet. The
bloody statute. Bible forbidden. Estimate of the Reformation
under Henry, .
38
IV.
REIGN OF EDWARD VI.
Persecutions stopped. Doctrinal disputes revived. Book of Homi-
lies. First service book: revised: never satisfactory to the Re-
formers. Supposed necessity of forming such a liturgy as to keep
the Popish people in the Church. Discrepancy between the Arti-
cles and Offices. Prayer-Book an equivocal standard: fairly
quoted by each of two irreconcileable schemes. The question
of a Liturgy. No right anywhere to impose one. Imposed not
by the Church, but by Parliament and Council. Uniformity en-
forced. Reforming the Ordinal. Rise of the Puritans,
V.
REIGN OF QUEEN MARY.
Kingdom reconciled to
A Puritan Church discov-
Her Duplicity. Restoration of Popery. Re-ordination of Clergy-
men ordained by King Edward's Book.
the Pope. Burning of the Reformers.
ered: its officers burned. Exiles at Frankfort,
67
VI.
QUEEN ELIZABETH.
Reformation conducted on principles of State policy. Papists to
be kept in the Church. High Commission. Things offensive to
Papists stricken out of the Liturgy. Plan of keeping Papists in
the Church successful. Foresight of the Puritans. Their pre-
dictions verified. Original complaints of the Puritans. Progress
of their inquiries,
77
VII.
THE CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLE.
Ultimate scope of Puritanic principles. Means employed to extermi-
nate them. Their rapid spread: nearly prevail in Convocation.
The Puritans ask only liberty of conscience. Not a struggle for
political power. Remonstrances of the Puritans. The separation
begins. Persecutions. The nation roused,
91
VIII.
THE PURITANS SUFFERING.
New Canons. Supplication to Parliament. Cartwright and Whit-
gift. Private press. New persecuting act. Brown and the
Brownists. Supplication of the Deprived Ministers. Whitgift's
inquisitorial articles. Martin Mar-Prelate. Act against, separate
Worship. Sufferings of the Puritans. Their touching narra-
tive. Roger Ripon. Barrowe. Greenwood. Penry,
106
IX.
"THE JUDICIOUS HOOKER."
The design and principles of his Ecclesiastical Polity. Its control-
ling influence over the dynasty of the Stuarts. These principles
examined. His doctrine. His notion of the powers of orders, 124
X.
KING JAMES L., AND THE GOING TO HOLLAND.
Change of James' Principles on his accession to the English throne.
Hampton Court Conference. Hundred and forty-one Canons.
Extra-judicial decision of the twelve Judges. Gathering of the
Pilgrim Church. Flight to Holland,
141
Question of a removal.
plication to the King.
XI.
THE VOYAGE TO AMERICA
Meeting for deliberation. Guiana. Ap-
The arrangements. Farewell meeting.
Parting at Delft-Haven. The Departure. The Mayflower upon
the Ocean. The compact.
Plymouth,
Provincetown harbor. Landing at
XII.
THE PILGRIMS AT PLYMOUTH.
Apparent designs of Providence. Contrast between Popery in South
America and Protestantism in the North. The fruits of Puritanism
in New England. Sufferings of the Pilgrims. The first harvest.
153
The first Thanksgiving.. New settlers. Famine. Day of Fasting.
Return of Plenty,
166
XIII.
THE STORM GATHERING IN ENGLAND.
Vacillating and Irritating Policy of James. Sycophantic bearing of
the Bishops. Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance. Attempts
of James to establish Episcopacy in Scotland. Assembly of
Perth. Change in the King's Theology. Original Calvinism of
the English Church. Lambeth Articles. Book of Sports. Perfidy
of James,
174
XIV.
REIGN OF CHARLES I.
Reaching for a union of Churchmen and Papists. Charles-his
High-Church and High-Prerogative notions. Strafford. Laud.
Huguenots of Rochelle. Book of the King's Chaplain. King and
Commons appeal to the people. Illegal exactions. The Church
Clergy side with tyranny. Overthrow of the Constitution. Cruel-
ties of Laud,
XV
TIMES OF ARCHBISHOP LAUD.
King and Prelates combine against the liberties of the People.
Popish ceremonies and utensils. Images, pictures of God, the
Father. Communion tables turned into altars. Natural tendency
of prelatic principles to corruption and persecution. Their fruit
on a broad scale, and for a thousand years. Original idea of “ A
Church without a Bishop, a State without a king,"
187
203
XVI.
REMOVALS TO AMERICA, AND FOUNDING OF THE PURITAN CHURCHES.
Plymouth a few years after its settlement. Plantation at Cape Ann.
Naumkeag. Charlestown. Fleet and Colony of 1629. Tolerant
spirit of the Colonists. Salem Church. The Fleet and Colony of
1630. Rapid emigration. Planting of the New England Churches, 216