History of Dissenters, from the Revolution in 1688, to the Year 1808: In Four Vol

Williams and Smith, 1808 - Dissenters - 512 pages

CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CHRIS	1

Constantine the great invested with the purple in Britain	7

Martyrdom of king Edmund at Bury	18

Thomas a Becket	24

History of Wickliffe	30

Several eminent forerunners of the reformation	37

Quarrel of Henry the eighth with the pope	44

Death and character of Edward the sixth	50

Liberty of conscience but of late date	204

Rejected by the parliament	218

SECTION II	228

Contest between the lords and commons on the bill	239

He is persecuted into importance	248

Sufferings of dissenters from the riots produced by	257

Inconsistent conduct of the whigs	263

Its iniquity and folly	270

Dissention between the puritans and the other English	56

King Edwards liturgy restored with alterations	57

Rise of the Brownists or independents	63

Conference between puritans and established clergy	69

Death and character of James	76

And of Burton Prynne and Bostwick	82

The state of religion during this period	89

Its effects	95

Plague in London	100

But avowing his popery alarms the clergy	106

The rise of their sentiments with Calvin	113

English presbyterians address the parliament	120

Their rise	128

Their sentiments diffused in England	130

Mr Henry Jacob forms an independent church	136

Their rise	143

Rise of the general or Arminian baptists	150

Of the Quakers	157

George Fox the father of the society	163

They hire a place for their own worship in London PAGE	168

The diffusion of their sentiments in the world	175

Its introduction to our isle by king William	181

Reflections on it	198

The whole scheme blasted by the death of Anne	276

The principles of the independents more favourable	282

Improvement in the character of the English clergy	288

A dissenter gives a statement of those principles which	292

Another principle with dissenters is the right of private	299

This can never be dangerous to the state	305

SECTION II	312

Dissenters object to the multiplicity of offices	319

The liturgy of the church of England cut into shreds	325

The length of the morning service objectionable	327

Evil tendency of the burial service	333

Sign of the cross in baptism	339

Excommunication	345

Falsehoods in the ordination service	351

To the state we are indebted for more lenient measures	361

A case stated to	379

Dissenters reasons should be carefully weighed	385

Religious controversy when lawful	389

The defence of his conduct	395

The publication of his works	401

Mr Lobbs appeal	407

Sensuality and pride the sources of both the extremes	414

The majority of the clergy at the reformation papists	421

Title	History of Dissenters, from the Revolution in 1688, to the Year 1808: In Four Vol Volume 1 of The history of Dissenters: from the Revolution in 1688, to the year 1808, James Bennett
Authors	David Bogue, James Bennett
Publisher	Williams and Smith, 1808
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	7 Nov 2008
Length	512 pages

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