Carew, 691n.
Carlton, Bishop, 389.
Carlyle, T., 664.
Carnes, J., 546n.
Carolinas, 480.
Carpenter, E., 577n.
Carre, Alice, 37%.
Carroll, J. H., 6oon, 602n. Carruthers, G. N., 584n. Carruthers, W., 534". Carter, 652n.
Carter, T., 572n.
Cartwright, T., a great man, but greater in impulse and purpose than achievement, 54; chief in bringing Pu- ritanism in England to a developed system, 55, 56; his influence in Cambridge, 69, 103, 73; pastor of an English church in Middelberg, 75, 84; replies respectfully to a letter of Harrison, and is answered by Browne, 86; 98, 100, 113, 126, 143, 145, 149, 153; regarded the Mar-prelate tracts as "disorderly," 157; slapped by Martin, 176; and on the other side by Pasquill, 180; gives no answer to a paper addressed him by Barrowe and Greenwood, 221-223; his course in reference to reform characterized by the Separatists, 231; 233, 235, 263; imprisoned by the Bishop of Lon- don, 364; 371; pushed the claims of State church Presbyterianism as the grand desideratum, 407, 459; its ablest early advocate after Knox, 629, 630; saw no way of reform but to wait till the hierarchy of the whole kingdom could be Presbyterianized, 699. Carver, J.. 390, 410.
Caryl, J., 6521, 660, 662.
Central Society, Lawrence, 597.
Clyfton, R., 258, 295, 317, 318, 326, 332, 3804. Cobbett, T., 587n.
Coddington, 417, 418.
Codman, J., 542n, 570n, 601n, 613. Coffin, T. G., 542. Cogswell, J., 6217. Coke, Lord, 248. Coke, Sir E., 688n. Coleman, 652. Colet, J., 50.
Collection, A, of certaine Sclanderous Articles, etc., 234. College life at Cambridge in Robinson's time, 367, 363. Collicott, 448n. Collier, 73 bis. Colman, B., 512, 531N. Colman, H., 616. Colshill, 256n. Columbus, C., 115. Colyer, Ann, 289.
Communion of the churches, 523, 524. Conant, S., 571n.
Concord, 436, 53on, 536n, 57ON, 595n. Concord, N. H., 526n.
Confessio Fidei Anglorum quorundam, etc., 316. Confessions of Faith, 258, 265, 270..
Confessions, relations of Congregationalism to, 701.
Conference between Truth and Peace, 658.
Conflict of authorities in the churches, 352, 487, 488. Conflict of Councils, 488, 614,621, 621%. Congregational Church, A, 695, 696, 697.
Certaine Minerall and Metaphysicall School Points, etc., Congregationalism, defined, 49; nearly re-discovered by 160.
Luther, 51; fully re-discovered by Browne, 70; attempts to make it do impossible works, 88; Browne, not Fitz, legitimately the first of its politists, 115, 128; the creed-literature of modern, in its beginning flavored with the oligarchic idea of the Eldership, 261; its early history in N. E., 413-464; its beginnings tenta- tive-mild type of Barrowism held at Plymouth- Salem Co. not Separatists when they left England- prejudiced against Plymouth, 413-415; the Provi- dential visit of a prominent Plymouth man removes their false impressions-Salem settlers about to elect and ordain a pastor and teacher, both before ordained in England, they invite Plymouth Church to be pres- ent-Plymouth sends Gov. Bradford and others, who give them the right hand of fellowship, 415, 416; Winthrop's Co. pursue much the same course that Sa- lem had, 416-418; this course offensive to some of the patentees, 418, 419; curious changes in the views of Cotton and others by N. E. air, 419; action of the Gen. Court in 1631 much misrepresented, 420; another unfortunate regulation of the Court, 421; J. Cotton's ordination he publishes a book upon Church Gov- ernment-order of worship and polity then set forth, 423, 425; a synod called in 1637 on account of dis- turbances by John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchin- son, 430, 431; Presbyterian sentiments in some of the churches lead to the calling of another synod in 1643, 431-433; The Keys, by John Cotton, 433-435; synod of 1646-meets in Cambridge-its character and doings-the Cambridge Platform, 435-444; draught by Rev. Mr. Partridge, 444-447; working aspects of the polity thus established, 448-459; difference be- tween early N. E. Congregationalism and the Presby terianism for a time established in England, 459–464; its later history in N. E.-Cambridge Platform un- modified for two generations-anxiety of those early fathers about the baptism of their children, 467-469 movement in Connecticut-troubles in a Hartford church, and a party in the colony at large wishing all moral persons to be admitted to full communion in the churches a council of the confederate colonies called, meets and holds a fortnight's session in 1657, 469, 470; matters made worse-a synod of elders and messengers from all the Mass. churches called, meets
March, 1662, results in the half-way covenant, 470, 471; many disapprove, sharp discussion of the subject for many years-Davenport of N. Haven a strenuous opponent a great decay of manners and morals, 471-477; synod called by Gen. Court in 1679 — their result specifies thirteen prevalent evils and gives twelve prescriptions for their cure-effect good upon ministers and churches, but calamities, deemed judg ments of God, are multiplied-century goes out in deep gloom, 477-480; same synod votes approval of the C. Platform for substance, 481-483; opinions dif- fering as to the power of synods, church officers and lay members, 484, 485; method of joining the church in 1726, 485; conflict of authorities in the churches, 487, 488; Saybrook synod readopts the Savoy Con- fession-adopts the London Heads of Agreement, and fifteen original propositions-Gen. Court sanc- tions and imposes the result on the colony, 487, 491; proposals of the Boston Association in 1705 for a gen- eral standing associated council, 491-493; not favor- ably received, but leads to momentous results, 493, 494; John Wise satirizes the "proposals" and effectu- ally demolishes them, and in another book presents a clear, broad discussion, and a conclusive argument for democracy in church and state, 498-500; great effect of these publications, 500-502; influence of the "Great Awakening," 502, 503; Bolton church case, 504, 505; effect of the Revolution on ecclesiastical tendencies- prevalence of the principles of Wise, but they hardly harmonize with the C. Platform, 506, 507; Emmons and his views of church government, 507-509; a tract by John Eliot, 509, 510; Stoddard's plea for a national church, 510, 511; Homes's and Colman's suggestions, 511, 512; one more attempt toward consociationism in Mass.-Emmons's short method, 512-514; some look- ing toward Egypt even in these late days, 514, 515; conventions and conferences a marked feature of our polity in the last twenty-five years-Albany Convention -Boston Council-Oberlin Council, 515-518; how dif- fering from Independency, 523; flexibility of, 613, 703; in England, 629-678; Presbyterianism the first shape to which Protestantism inclined in the Father Land-the Universities foremost in reform-the genius of Puritanism-Presbyterianism established in Scotland in 1592-but some of the most earnest re- formers radically unsatisfied with all Presbyterian arrangements, 629-631; nothing gained by attempting to predate Independency in Great Britain-no evi- dence of any church existing earlier than 1587 holding uninterrupted relations with the Congregationalism of the present, 631-634; Henry Jacob visits Leyden- adopts Robinson's views-returns and organizes a church in Southwark-regarded as the mother-church of the Independent denomination as it now exists- establishment of a Baptist church in London Congre- gational in its polity, and others follow, but Sepa- ratism does not make large growth during the first quarter of the 17th century, 635-638; William Laud- his mighty and mischievous influence, 638-642 Charles the tool of Laud in endeavoring to force repulsed Episcopacy upon Scotland - baffled forced to call a Parliament, 642, 643; bold measures, Stafford and Laud both impeached and executed, 644; an alliance formed with Scotland - an passed ordering a synod to consider ecclesiastical affairs-the Westminster Assembly, 645, 647; most of its members Presbyterians-only ten or eleven Inde- pendents, 652; their session lasts five and a half years, 655; the Independents confessedly among the ablest of the members, they argue for universal toleration, 656, 657; Independency flourishes under Cromwell, but not in its purity-appointments to high offices, and Congregational principles compromised in a measure thereby, 660; Independents increase greatly in all parts of the country need of a written state- ment of their faith felt, and Cromwell consents to the calling of an assembly of Congregational elders of England and Wales-it meets in the palace of the Savoy, in London, and finishes its work, the Savoy Confession, in eleven days, 661, 662; great reaction follows the death of Cromwell and the restoration, 663-665; persecution of Nonconformity wide reach- ing and severe, 666-571; change of policy-the Tol- leration Act, etc., 672; thoroughly respectable now in England to be a Congregationalist, 672; honored by its grand success in England, 673; English and Ameri- can compared, 673-677; Congregationalism, English and American, nearly equal in number of churches and communicants-some differences naturally devel- oped between us, 673-675; our brethren in England have had a heavy burden to carry-but what they
have accomplished witnesses to the power of the Con- gregational gospel, and the pluck of its professors, 676; we feel an honest pride in them and their list of noble names, 677, 678; its golden age not in the past, 692; of to-day, its fundamental essence, 695; its demo- cracy, 697; solution of the enigma of the Ruling Elder system of N. E., 698; its true relation to platforms and confessions, 701; its security and strength, 705, 706; it is something more than a polity, 708-711; its chief danger in our time, 712, 713; preeminently a spiritual polity-nearness to God its sweet and surpassing encouragement, 714; drift of all polities toward Con- gregationalism, 715. Congregationalists, 114. Connall, J., 349.
Connecticut, 436, 469, 470, 480, 488, 495, 503, 516, 562, 563n, 587n. Consociationism, 489, 490, 496, 503, 512, 515, 531N. Constable, H., 361. Convention of Mass. Ministers, 500, 505, 506, 507. Convention of Rhode Island Ministers, 503. Convention, National, in Albany, 515, 516. Conway, 621%. Cooke, 691n.
Cooke, P., 514, 537. Cooley, T., 514. Cooper, J., 599n. Cooper, 174n, 256n. Cooper, T., 156, 174. Cooper, T., 311. Cooper, T., 6112. Copcot, J., 365. Cope, A., 638. Copernicus, 683.
Coppin, J., 206, 208, 209, 210. Corbet, 668.
Cordley, C. M., 597n. Corken, W. D., 611n. Cornelius, E., 5472, 572n.
Corpus Christi College, 64, 68, 360, 364, 365. Cosins, 147, 212.
Cotton, I., 88, 194, 331, 354, 417, 419, 422, 423, 432, 433, 434 bis, 437, 457, 461, 463, 521, 551, 574, 587n, 591n, 637, 651, 653. Cotton, J, Jr., 423n, 591n, 598n. Brownism, not by High-Church Barrowism, 521; Councils Ecclesiastical, 521-recognized by original Robinson's views did not favor them, but he had little occasion to study the subject, nor was there any occa- sion for it in New England, in whose annals it is now chiefly to be studied, till Endicott's Company and Winthrop's arrived, both of which sought and shared the fellowship of Plymouth church, 522, 523; proper occasions for a council, 524, 525; who may call a council, 525-527; kinds of councils, Advisory, Mut- ual and Ex-parte, 527; regular method of calling, 527 -530; place of meeting, 530; membership, 531-537; quorum, 537-539; organization 539, 540; business, 541-543; voting, 543, 544; adjourning for a purpose, 544: result, 545, 546; protest, 546; interpretation of result, 547; dissolution, 547; councils respecting the recognition of churches, 548-553; respecting the in- tercourse of churches, 553-555; the disfellowship of churches, 555-564; the disbandment of churches, 565-566; ordination of "evangelists," 567-569; set- tlement of pastors, 569-584; suspension of pastors, 585; dismission of pastors, 586-597; deposition of pastors, 598; called to give light, 599-606; called in the interest of peace, 606-611; called in the in- terest of purity, 612-626; called by General Court, 469, 470; standing, 492, 497, 509, 510, 511, 515; sys- tem of, proposed by J. Eliot; Partridge's philosophy of, 445; Homes's plea for an associational, 511, 512; associational recommended by a committee in 1844, 515; ex-parte, fears of, 614, 620n; false notions of their power, 614, 620; as tribunals, failures, 625; of immense possible and actual value rightly employed, 626; their religious side-an impressive example of their blessed effects, 621-625; national, of 502 mem- bers in Boston, 516, 517, 518, 612, 703; at Oberlin, O. (1871), 517,518, 703. Countercuffe, A, given to Martin Iunior, etc., 177. Covenant of the Gainsborough church, 377, 378. Covenant of the Scotch Presbyterians, 642. Coventry, 166, 185, 312, 637. Cradock, 414%. Craig, W., 602n. Crane, 573′′. Crane, N., 207. Cresey, N., 541. Crocker, J., 599n.
Dartmouth College, 531, 552.
Davenant, J., 389.
Davenport, Jas., 569.
Duke of Alva, 721. Duke of Guise, 176.
Duke of Norfolk, 64, 65, 72. Dukinfield, 635n. Dunbar, Mr., 571n.
Duncanson, A., 533n, 58on.
Dundee, 76, 79.
Dunlap, R., 596n.
Dunstable, N. H., 609n.
Dunster, H., 587n.
Durandus, 39.
Durham, 295.
Durie, R., 387n.
Dutch at Zeland, 72, 73.
Dutton, S. W. S., 563, 600n.
Duxbury, 413, 543n, 581, 588n, 59on, 599n, Dwight, H. E., 577.
Dwightree, G., 207n.
Earl of Essex, 155. Earl of Exeter, 87. Earl of Warwick, 404.
East Berkshire, Vt., 530.
East Boston, 589#, 590n.
East Bridgewater, 596n.
East Haddam, Ct., 507. East Hadley, 5зon, 550.
Davenport, Jno., 471, 473, 474, 587n, 591n, 651, 651n, Eastham, 530, 535, 585.
East Hartford, 5992. East Haverhill, 583.
East Longmeadow, 604.
East Medway, 589n.
Easton, 582.
Easton, Ct., 6112.
East Somerville, 608n.
East Weymouth, 583, 605.
East Windsor, Ct., 603n, 610n.
East Winsted, Ct., 602n.
Eaton, J. M. R., 590n. Eaton, S., 5872, 635n. Eayrs, J. H., 610.
Ecclesiastical Commission, 156.
Edinburg, 77, 78, 79, 3432, 688.
Editor of the Advance, 592n.
East Haverhill, 583.
Edward VI., 54.
Edward the Confessor, 648, 654.
Edwards Church, Boston, 590я.
Edwards, E., 540.
Edwards, Jona., 487, 527, 594.
Edwards, T., 603n.
Egerton, 256.
Egerton, S., 174, 174.
Egerton, Sir T., 86, 243.
Eiles, W., 291.
Elders, 53, 238, 260, 261, 263, 276, 314, 315, 326, 327,
332, 353, 398, 399, 424.
Eldridge, 563, 60on.
Eliot, J., 509, 690. Ellesmere, Lord, 240. Ellsworth, W. W., 6oon. El Paso, O., 568n. Ely, 577
Ely, Bishop of, 89, 152. Emanuel Coll., 363, 377. Emden, 53, 338, 338n. Emerson, C. H., 588n. Emerson, R., 547n. Emerson, R. W., 715.
Emmons, N., from E. Haddam, Ct., 1745-fifty years pastor in Franklin, himself a theological seminary, his character as a thinker, a reasoner, a preacher, a theologian and a Christian man-second father of New England Congregationalism of the present, 507; six points of the Congregational Way as he viewed it, 507-509; observations in his old age about councils and office powers, 513; a Brownist after R. Browne's own heart, 514; 552, 588.
Encyclopædia Britannica, 96.
Endecott, v, 4142, 415, 415%, 418, 523. Enfield, Ct., 535.
England, condition of, at opening of the sixteenth cent- ury, 2; population of, 2; different classes, 2, 3; edu- cation extremely limited, 3, 4: ignorance in the uni- versities, 4; vice and crime very prevalent, 3; sev- enty-two thousand robbers, thieves, etc., hanged by Henry VIII., 3; all subdivided into small local par- ishes, 3; for centuries a Papal country, 4; practices prevalent, A. D. 1500, 5; ceremonies of infant bap tism, 5, 6; confirmation, regeneration affirmed of the
confirmed infant, 7-9; churching of women, 9; disas- trous influence of these superstitions, 9, 10; cross, sign of, endlessly repeated, 6, 8, 11, 19, 22, 23, 27; crosses set up where roads met, and in grave yards, etc., 10, 11; bells, superstitious use of, 11, 15, 16; churches must be placed east and west, 12; church arrangements and furniture, 13-15; church services almost wholly unintelligible, 16, 17; saint worship, 17, 18; mummeries of the mass, 17-19; Bible, not even the priest had one, and others not allowed to read it, 20, 47; all books, except those specially sanctioned by the church, prohibited, 20, 47; influence of the Lol- lards feared; one burned in 1505, 20, 22; struggles nat- ural to an inquiring and anxious mind, 20-46; the pax, church ales, glutton-masses, 23; unaccountable reg- ulations, 24-26; indulgences, 247, 38, 39; church in- terference with all affairs, 26; festival days, multiplied, denounced by King Henry VIII., 26, 27; marriage and burial regulations, 27, 28; the practical philoso- phy of so many rites, 28; attendance on Sunday and holiday services enforced, 28; claims of the church upon property of the dying and the dead, 28, 29; low and false terms of salvation prescribed; absolute obe- dience to the church the great dogma, all church rites to be fully performed, 29, 29n; confession, pilgrim- ages, 30-36; relics-absurdity of their pretensions, 30, 31; miracles, pretended, 31, 32; bad moral quali- ty and influence of the church and the clergy, 33, 34; papal theology fundamentally erroneous, yet artfully planned to gain popular acceptance, 35, 36; demoral- izing tendency of Romish methods- eucharist en- forced-absolution in the priest's power, purgatory and prayers for the repose of souls, 36, 37; churches made refuges for criminals, 39, 40; dealing with the sick and dying, 40-42; supposed scene at deathbed of a mother, 42-45; excommunication-curses for heresy, 45, 46; tyranny of the church over the human mind, 46, 47; heretics to be extirpated, 47; condition of England at the close of the fifteenth century summed up, 47, 48; 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 62, 72, 85, 94, 96, 114, 121, 124, 135, 136, 139, 140, 154, 171, 208, 223, 225, 226 bis, 278, 293, 299, 302, 309, 342, 351, 361, 362, 378, 389, 405, 408, 414, 418, 419, 422, 425, 431, 523, 586n, 587, 587n quater, 641, 643, 644, 646, 683, 684, 686, 687 bis, 688 bis.
English Reformed Church in Amsterdam, 316, 340, 341. Epicurus, 34.
Episcopacy, 49, 631, 642. Episcopalians, 712.
Episcopius, 385, 388.
Epistle, The, 145, 154, 156, 157, 158, 161, 195, 198.
Epistola Magistri Benedicti Passauantij, etc., 135.
Epitaphs for Martin, 181-183.
Epitome, The, 144, 154, 156, 158, 161, 198.
Erasmus, 4, 29, 30, 50 bis, 133, 172.
Essex South Conference, 566n, 567n.
Essex St. Church, Boston, 550m, 601.
Exeter, N. H., 413n, 587n, 592n, 599n, born.
Fay, W., 598n. Fayrweather, S., 577. Fenner, D., 263. Field, D. D., 585n. Field, J., 133, 187. Field, R. E., 532я. Finney, C. G., 559. Firmin, G., 574.
First Blast of the Trumpet, etc., 142. First Church, Boston, 413, 574%. First Church, Chicago, 5921. First Church, Northampton, 594. First Church, San Francisco, 5977. First Episcopal Church in New England, 615. First parte of Pasquils Apologie, 184, 192. First Presbyterian Church, N. Y., 591. First Separatist (Congregational) Church, 265, 634. First Unitarian Church in America, 615. Fish, S., 3.
Fisk case, Salem, 557-561.
Fisk, 531, 544, 557, 559, 561. Fisk, Mrs., 535%. Fisk, N., 578. Fisk, J., 60бn. Fiske, D. T., 487n. Fiske, F. A., 548n. Fiske, J., 587n. Fitch, Gov. T., 503.
Fitchburg, 546, 602n, 6o3n, 614n, 615n, 616. Fitz, E. S., 5998, 712. Fitz, R., 114, 115. Flanders, 362.
Fleet Prison, 364, 632, 699. Fletcher, 649n.
Fletcher, S. H., 531n, 598n. Fontenelle, 172H. Forester, J., 256n. Forster, J., 240. Foster, E. B., 59on. Foster, I., 598n. Foster, J., 58in. Foster, W. C., 5974. Fotheringay, 654. Fowler, J., 332. Fox, 256, 265, 272.
Fox, J., 47, 251, 252, 632. Foxcroft, S., 574, 576n.
Framingham, 561, 562, 581, 583n, 609n.
Francestown, N. H., 581n, 603n, 607n, 619n. Franciscanus, 137.
Frankford (Philadelphia), 6112.
Frankfort, 53.
Franklin, 507.
Fratres Fraterrimi, 137.
Freake, 69, 70, 121.
Freetown (now Fall River), 590n.
Friend, Sir J., 6912.
Friendly Admonition to Martin, etc., 185.
Froude, J. A., 692.
Fulham, 149, 151, 157, 160, 195.
Fuller, 50, 72, 73, 87, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 1241
Ex-parte Councils, 474, 526, 550, 557, 563 ter, 612, 614. Gardiner, A., 548.
Greenfield, 532, 533, 536n, 546n, 579, 609n.
Greenham, R., 66, 89-91; 92, 93, 98, 119, 157, 187. Greenhill, 662.
Greenwich, Eng., 114.
Greenwich, Conn., 5317, 6021.
Greenwood, J., 206; ord. priest by the Bishop of Lon- don-separates in a few years from the Established Church-arrested and lodged in the Clink prison, 211; a friend and fellow prisoner of Barrowe, 212, 213; examined at palace of Bishop of London, 220, 221; with Barrowe sends a paper to Cartwright, 221-223; allowed to be out on bail-falls in with F. Johnson, chosen teacher of the church when it was formally completed, 265; rearrested and reimprisoned in his old quarters, 232; reviews Dr. Some's attack on Penry, 233; joint author, with Barrowe, of several books sent from prison, 234, 239, 259, 261; when examined con- fesses authorship of the books laid to his charge, 240; condemned and executed 6 April, 1593, 245, 266; 311, 433, 634, 699.
Gregory, 60бn.
Griffith, G., 669n.
Grindall, Archbishop, 687.
Groine, The, 174.
Grosseteste, Bishop, 34", 50, 118.
Grotius, H., 385.
Groton, 584, 591n, bobn.
Groton Center, 599.
Guernsey, 72.
Guilderland, 641.
Harvard College, 477, 495, 563n, 579.
Harvey, G., 1841.
Harvey, R., 69n.
Harvey, R., 1847, 185, 192.
Harvey, W., 684.
Harwich, 601n.
Haskell, Rev. T. N., 589.
Hassey, Dea., 5281.
Hassey, J., 528n.
Hastings, J., 602n.
Hastings, J., Mrs., 602n.
Hastings, Lady, 410.
Haverhill, 541n, 549n, 553n bis, 586n
Haverhill, E. Parish, 552, 583n, 600n.
Haverhill, W. Parish, 577.
Hawes, J., 563, 573n, 600л.
Hawthorn, Major, 572n.
Hay any worke for Cooper, etc., 162, 167.
Hay any more work for Cooper, 167, 168. Hayward, J. T. K., 540.
Hazen, H. A., 551.
Heads of Agreement, 489, 491. Healy, J. W., 541. Heath, Mass., 602n. Heghfeld, J., 40n. Heidelburg, 300, 652. Heinsius, D., 385. Helvetian Alps, 361.
Helwys, T., 318, 319, 319, 320, 320я ter, 321, 321m bis, 322n ter, 323n ter, 378, 395, 636. Hendersone, 656. Henniker, N. H., 621n. Henry II., 136. Henry IV., 655.
Henry VII., 5, 33, 648.
Henry VIII., 3, 26, 33, 53, 133. Henry, Earl of Derby, 167. Hewet, T., 207.
Higginson, J., 4142 bis. Higginson, J., 587.
Hildershan, A., 194, 276, 312. Hill, J., 531.
Hill, R., 6851.
Hindustan, 17.
Hampton Court Conference, 375, 377.
Hampton, N. H., 413n, 587n.
Hanbury, B., 62, 62n, 89, 189, 258 ter, 271, 677.
Hannay, A., 675n, 678.
Hanover, 576n.
Hooke, W., 587#, 615#.
Hooker, R., 188, 188, 363
Hooker, T., 430, 432, 432, 539, 587, 637, 651, 653-
Hooper, Bp., 34, 54, 632.
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