ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for ‘a further reformation’. It tells the fascinating story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate destruction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|37 pages
Puritanism and the Elizabethan Church
part 2|41 pages
The Breach Opens
part 3|57 pages
The First Presbyterians
part 4|83 pages
Moderate Courses
part 5|48 pages
1584
part 6|41 pages
The Grand Design
part 7|52 pages
Presbytery in Episcopacy
part 8|85 pages
Discovery, Prosecution and Dissolution