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CHAPTER I.
A.D. 1642—3.
Opening of the civil war....
The puritans take part against the king ......
Reasons for their conduct .......
The king's duplicity ....................
Bad influence of the queen .......
The puritans underrated their strength
Occurrences of the war
Lord Brooke ...........
Hampden. ..............
Lord Falkland .......
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CHAPTER II.
45—50
54
55-58
A.D. 1643—4.
The hierarchy dissolved .........
The Westminster assembly...............
Committee for scandalous ministers.
Sufferings of the clergy .........
Were they treated with justice ? ........
Errors of the long parliament.
Violence of the people ............
Opening of the Westminster assembly
Its composition .........
The presbyterian system .............
Archbishop Ussher's scheme....
The independents .....
The erastians ........
The Scotch representatives .....
The sectaries ................
The solemn league and covenant
The assembly's directory.........
The catechism.
62—65
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Character of the assembly .......
Battles of Newbury, Bolton, and Marston-Moor. ....... Trial and Execution of Laud........
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90–96
97—99
100
CHAPTER III.
A.D. 1643–5.
Real character of the puritans at this time ...
State of religion in London ..............
Marshall, Manton, Calamy, Hugh Peters .....
State of religion throughout England .......
Baxter's sermon during the battle of Edge Hill
Writes the Saint's Everlasting Rest ....
State of religion in the puritan army
Cromwell's fourteen squadrons ...........
The officers religious men ................
The chaplains .....
107
109-115
116-128
128
130
131
133
135
136
141
MC CuapiaiuS ................................
CHAPTER IV.
143
144
148
149
151
153
A.D. 1645-8.
Treaty of Uxbridge. . .....
Demands of the parliament. Presbyterianisin
The Irish question. The treaty failed .......
The question of a jus divinum ......
The liturgy proscribed .....
The independents oppressed
.......
The presbyterians intolerant.....
The self-denying ordinance ....
Cromwell's power increases. His conduct ......
The presbyterians and the parliament decline ......
Battle of Naseby. The Naseby papers ...
Was Charles concerned in the Irish massacre ?
His former duplicity about Rochelle. . .
His letters to the Pope ......
His treaty with the Irish rebels..
Bitterness and retaliations of the parliamentary army.
Siege of Latham house and Wardour castle....... ...
Cruelties practised by the royalists .......
Progress of the war. The king retires to Newark .....
Siege of Colchester ....
155-158
159
162–170
171
173—177
177—183
185
189
192-196
198
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199
208–211
213–215
215–221
222
CHAPTER V.
A.D. 1646–8.
Religious state of England at the close of the war ....
The antinomians .......
Antinomianism in the army ...
Growth of the sectaries .........
Rise of quakerism. George Fox ...
Progress of the independents........
And decay of the presbyterian party...... Deplorable condition of the church of England ......... New doctrines arise ..
223-227
228
230—234
235-242
242
243
245–250 250-- 254
CHAPTER VI.
A.D. 1647—8.
A military despotism ......
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The army subdues the parliament.......
The universities reformed. Cambridge ...
Oxford. The episcopalians resist........
Evils of the covenant. Treaty of Newport......
Increasing violence of the republicans and the army ........
255
256–263
264
267—274 275-282 282–286
287
289-300
301
CHAPTER VII.
A.D. 1648–9.
The trial of the king ........
Were the puritans guilty of his death? The question discussed
at length .........................................
The king was destroyed by the army and the republicans ....
Cromwell's share in the king's death .....
Arguments of the regicides .........
The execution of Charles .....
Conduct of Owen and Milton .....
Execution of the three royalist lords, Hamilton, Holland, and
Capel ......
Cromwell's Irish campaign ...... ...
303
305—310
311
315
317–320
322
CHAPTER VIII.
A.D. 1649–53.
Puritanism triumphs, but dangers are at hand.........
326
The religious puritans involved with the ruling powers ...... 327
The government oppressive and insincere.................. 329-332
Cromwell invades Scotland .
334
The battle of Dunbar. Presbyterians and independents fight
Execution of Love .......
Leaders of the commonwealth rapacious ....
Battle of Worcester. Severities that followed ............
Moral and religious state of England and of the army........
A great apostacy was at band. Its four causes considered ..
For which four causes are assigned. .....................
337
340
347
349–352
353
354-361
CHAPTER IX.
A.D. 1653–8.
Cromwell continues to rise. Barebones parliament .... The law of marriage ......... Cromwell's new constitution ....... The triers. Their proceedings .....
Cromwell's respect for learning...........
The fifth monarchy men ..........
Another parliament dissolved. Cromwell despotic......
Basis proposed for a national church ........
Independent's synod of the Savoy ......
Cromwell wishes for the crown........
His anxieties. “ Killing no murder,” published .......
His sickness, death, and character. ................
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420
CHAPTER X.
A.D. 1659–62.
Richard Cromwell. The restoration...
Dejection of the puritans. They assist in the restoration ...
The presbyterians duped by the foreign protestants ........
The presbyterian chaplains appointed ..............
They ask for ecclesiastical reforms
The bishops oppose them .........
Conduct of Clarendon in the privy council ......
Bishoprics offered to the puritan leaders ..
The Savoy conference. No concessions made ............
Venner's conspiracy .....
John Bunyan. His sufferings. The Pilgrim's progress
Trial and behaviour of the regicides ...
Persecution of the quakers.........
The act of uniformity .......
Its justice and policy considered .......
Final ejection of the nonconformist clergy ......
A universal decay of piety. Conclusion .......
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426
429-434
435
436–441
441
444
446
449-460 461-465 465–473