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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,

"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,

KING JAMES I., 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,

THE VOYAGE TO AMERICA

Question of a removal.

plication to the King.

Meeting for deliberation. Guiana. Ap-

The arrangements. Farewell meeting.

Parting at Delft-Haven. The Departure. The Mayflower upon

the Ocean. The compact.

Provincetown harbor. Landing at

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.

The first Thanksgiving. New settlers. Famine. Day of Fasting.

Return of Plenty,

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

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-

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,"

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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

RISE OF THE CIVIL WARS.

Charles a martyr to his own insincerity and crimes. Attempts to

impose a Liturgy upon Scotland. Uproar in St. Giles'. Solemn

League and Covenant. The Episcopal War. Charles forced to

call a Parliament. Laud impeached. Divine right of Episco-

pacy discussed. Smectymnuus. Irish Massacre. Appeal to

THE RULE AND JUDGE OF FAITH.

Bishop of Connecticut on the Rule of Faith. "The Scriptures as in-

terpreted by the first two centuries." Dr. Jarvis extends it to five

centuries; others to seven; to nine; to eighteen. Who to fix

the limit? Who to declare the interpretation? Absurdity of the

rule. No stable ground between Puritanism and Popery. The

Prayer-Book as the interpretation of an interpretation. Impos-

sible to fix the standard of the first two centuries. Episcopalians,

on their principles, bound to fix the canons of the Fathers, and

to give them to the people. Doctrine of the Bishop of Connec-

ticut contrasted with the doctrine of the Scriptures. The Bible

alone the religion of Protestants,

ON THE ALLEGED RIGHT TO IMPOSE LITURGIES AND CEREMONIES.

Illustrated by the Doctrines of Holy Alliance. Enormities in prac-

tice. Necessarily a system of usurpation and persecution. Na-

tural rights of Christian congregations. Plea of uniformity. The

question not of the expediency of a Liturgy, but of the right to

impose one. Canons of American Episcopacy. Limits of Church

Examination of the grounds on which the Puritan Churches are

charged as schismatical. The Prelatical Doctrine of Schism test-

ed by Scripture. Singular scheme for restoring a visible Unity.

Scriptural view of Schism,

No NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL OR DIOCESAN CHURCH RECOGNIZED IN THE

The Church invisible; partly on earth, partly in heaven.

Church on earth, composed of all Christ's people, in all com-

munions; its members known only to God. The Church as com-

posed of visible organizations. No National, Provincial, or Dio-

cesan organization or authority, recognized in the New Testa-

ment. Slater's argument concerning the Churches of Antioch

and Jerusalem, answered by Scripture,

MATERIALS, STRUCTURE AND DISCIPLINE OF A CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Scriptural authority. The arrangements of Prelacy contrary to

THE CHURCH, AS TO EARTHLY RULE, A REPUBLIC, AND NOT A MONARCHY.

Observation of distinguished Civilians. Inseparable connection be-

tween doctrine and the genius of government. Prelacy incom-

patible with Christ's injunctions. Claim of Bishops to be irre-

sponsible sovereigns. Republican principles recognized by the

Apostles. Popular elections. Mistake with regard to the word

OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH.

Extraordinary functions. Men called to a special work

gelists. Deacons. Bishops. Presbyters, or Pastors. Singular

error of the Prayer-Book. Apostles; their office; requisite en-

APOSTLES NO SUCCESSORS.

Argument from the name. Epaphroditus, Andronicus, Junia. Ar-

gument from the powers exercised. Bishop Onderdonk's argu-

ment examined. Laying on of the hands of the Presbytery,

DIOCESAN BISHOPS.

Timothy not Diocesan of Ephesus. The Angels of the Churches

were no Diocesan Bishops. No change of official designation

from Apostle to Bishop,

PRELACY DISPROVED BY THE FATHERS,

INFERENTIAL PRESUMPTIONS.

High Priests. Priests and Levites. Three Orders. The Apostolic

Commission. Claims of Diocesans to be Vicegerents of Jesus

EPISCOPAL EXCLUSIVENESS-ITS BASIS SUPERSTITION,

APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION, CORRUPT AS A DOCTRINE, FALSE IN FACT,

ECONOMY OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT.

Ordination. Headship of the Church.

Episcopacy and Republi-

canism. Episcopacy in the American Revolution. Reproaches

against the Puritans. The tables turned. Comparative tenden-

cies of Puritanism and Prelacy. Conclusion,

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