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.

part 1|37 pages

Puritanism and the Elizabethan Church

chapter 2|16 pages

‘But Halfly Reformed’

chapter 3|11 pages

The Beginnings of a Party

part 2|41 pages

The Breach Opens

chapter 1|12 pages

So many Learned and Religious Bishops

chapter 2|13 pages

That Comical Dress

chapter 3|8 pages

London's Protestant Underworld 1

chapter 4|6 pages

The People and the pope's Attire

part 3|57 pages

The First Presbyterians

chapter 1|8 pages

A New Dogma

chapter 2|13 pages

The Circumstances of its Assertion

chapter 3|9 pages

The Universities and the New Men

chapter 4|15 pages

The Early Presbyterian Movement

chapter 5|10 pages

An Inquisition and a Witch-hunt

part 4|83 pages

Moderate Courses

chapter 1|9 pages

Grindal

chapter 2|9 pages

The Prophesyings

chapter 4|17 pages

Reaction

chapter 5|14 pages

Exercises, Conferences and Fasts

chapter 6|18 pages

The Dedham Conference 1

part 5|48 pages

1584

chapter 1|6 pages

Whitgift

chapter 2|14 pages

The First Round

chapter 3|10 pages

The Second Round

chapter 4|16 pages

The Parliament of 1584–5

part 6|41 pages

The Grand Design

chapter 1|12 pages

The Book of Discipline

chapter 2|14 pages

The Bill and Book

chapter 3|13 pages

A Mixed Reception

part 7|52 pages

Presbytery in Episcopacy

chapter 1|13 pages

The Congregation and its Ministers

chapter 2|10 pages

Discipline and the Eldership

chapter 3|16 pages

Worship

chapter 4|11 pages

The Meetings of the Godly

part 8|85 pages

Discovery, Prosecution and Dissolution

chapter 1|18 pages

Partly Fearing, Partly Hoping

chapter 2|14 pages

On Trial

chapter 3|15 pages

The Star Chamber

chapter 4|16 pages

Underground and Diverted

chapter 5|20 pages

The End of a Movement